July 25, 2005
Update - Chapter 10 - Google Confirms "id=" problem
In Chapter 10 we wrote that all engines had a problem indexing URL's using a string in their URL's that contained "ID="
On June 2nd GoogleGuy posted in WebmasterWorld that they have had problems with the "ID=" string in most commerce type URL's. The problem is that this ID is typically followed by a Session ID.
Our testing shows that a URL using an "ID=" code is ok IF you use less than 5 numbers of letters following the "=". Google has added this to their Webmaster Webmaster Guidelines http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html under the topic "Technical Guidelines.
Posted by whunt at 04:12 AM | Comments (0)
July 23, 2005
Update - Chapter 10 - Google Site Maps
As I mentioned in the update for Chapter 2, Google has a beta program that is meant to help large complex sites get more of their rich content into the Google index.
The team at Global Strategies have been researching the use og Google site maps and find them to be very effective for getting large complicated sites intexed. They have deployed a number of very large maps ranking from 500k page to a few million pages and for the most part Google has handled them very well.
For more information on Google Site Maps please see https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/stats
For more information on how Global Strategies is utilizing this for their clients please contact then via their web site at www.globalstrategies.com .
Posted by whunt at 01:33 AM | Comments (0)