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A website has a page that is dynamically populated using data retrieved from an API call. The site has a standard design with index page, categories and some related links, nothing out of the ordinary.
The dynamic pages know what to retrieve and display based on a variable in the link that brings a visitor to that page (ie: $_REQUEST["widgets"]). The page isn't spam, it also ads very useful content such as reviews from other places on the site itself, the pages rank well in search.
HOWEVER, if someone was to change the variable in the url and then linked to the resulting page from another site would search index the page?
Basically can a page that has useful content rank based on the power of incoming links only if it's not linked to from the site itself?
if someone was to change the variable in the url and then linked to the resulting page from another site would search index the page?
Basically can a page that has useful content rank based on the power of incoming links only if it's not linked to from the site itself?
Basically can a page that has useful content rank based on the power of incoming links only if it's not linked to from the site itself?
Yes and it's a good reason why you need to do a good job sanitizing input. Just think if someone put some nasty wording in the querystring and then linked to it and got that page to rank. It could be political slander, competitive slander, etc...
if someone was to change the variable in the url and then linked to the resulting page from another site would search index the page?
