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Published: Sep 23, 2008 - 02:20 pm
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Category: SEO
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News Source: http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com
Published: Sep 23, 2008 - 02:20 pm
Story Found By: mvandemar 1342 Days ago
Category: SEO
6 Comments
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My first thought on reading that article was: I’ll believe it when I see it. ’Cuz "letting Google decide" has always worked out so well before.
Hey, There are two things here:1) The definitions of static and dynamic URLs are wrong.A static URL is an URL that typicall points to a static file on the server.A dynamic URL is one that pulls content from a database and serves it to the person who asked for it.But you have rightly mentioned that google cannot know from where the content is served.Google article has created only confusions than anything else.They probably intended to tell that they handle parameterized URLs well now unlike earlier.But you example out there (for mortgagecalculator) shows that they are now indexing all duplicate content.It is funny that their new crawl algorithm to recognize parameterized URLs is triggering their duplicate content algorithm to fail.I saw similar examples sometime (2 weeks ago) back and was wondering how a site had two different URLs pointing to the same content and still had both of them rank in the first page for a search phrase.This article by google now makes it clear that they are messing their algorithms...
yes they are not duplicates...i do agree with darrenslatten.... and google is recognizing them as different content correctly...but their definitions of static and dynamic URLs are wrong and the author of this article is right in saying that google cannot know from where the content is served.googlebot would not be making so many calculations as darren suggests...
Some SEO people are recommending, now, that your WordPress posts should end with a .html in order to confuse the hell out of people as to exactly what they are looking at. Perhaps, this is Google’s beef?Forcing a .html extension on a dynamic site is going a bit too far in my opinion. Your site is, what it is.
I think the main intention was simply to dissuade beginners from doing rewrites, as done badly they can make things worse… There are plenty of live examples out on the web that amply demonstrate that point.Even a great many of the various forum, blog, and CMS packages - even the most well known and popular ones - are full of these sorts of problems, and various “SEF URL packages” don’t always fully address the problems.Maybe in those cases Google would have preferred that the designers had left things well alone, as by implementing rewrites badly they have made things far worse for crawlers, not better.For those that really do know what they are doing, are aware of all the risks, and properly test their work with a wide range of expected and *unexpected* URL requests, then carry on as before.
Spun for the simple fact that the comments listed here already eloquently detail the technical aspects of why the on-page factors are influincing Google’s results. What Google has posted about using static files vs rewritten dynamic URLs is a bit of BS for anyone with any experience and skill, but in the hands of those who do not understand such issues, it would be best to leave well enough alone.