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I have a menu that contains dynamic links. These load the same page ‘default.asp’, but with different content based on the value of a Query String variable.

Example menu:

href default.asp?some_var=1&another_var=2
href default.asp?some_var=1&another_var=3
href default.asp?some_var=2&another_var=1
href default.asp?some_var=2&another_var=2

Would the Google Bot visit all 4 of those pages even though technically it’s the same page with different content based on the different parameters?

and would it keep following each link on the page that is loaded thereafter, and so on until it runs out of links to follow?
The links are generated BEFORE the page loads. So they are visible to the Google bot. …but they reload the page… just with different Query String variables. Do they follow these links?

I have a menu that contains dynamic links. These load the same page ‘default.asp’, but with different content based on the value of a Query String variable.

Example menu:

href default.asp?some_var=1&another_var=2
href default.asp?some_var=1&another_var=3
href default.asp?some_var=2&another_var=1
href default.asp?some_var=2&another_var=2

Would the Google Bot visit all 4 of those pages even though technically it’s the same page with different content based on the different parameters?

and would it keep following each link on the page that is loaded thereafter, and so on until it runs out of links to follow?

Lets take Y!A as an example: All Q&A are in a big Data Base (tables, fields, .. ). So, every question I watch is the same PAGE but the content is dynamic being insert to the PAGE.

So, How google know the question is in Y!A DB, while it is not a static HTML page and google can not search in Y!A db.

Please explain this issue.

My question relates to multilingual sites.

For 2 or 3 languages, we could duplicate the site. However for 5 or 6 languages, I think it is better to use dynamic content. As long as the content is relatively static, I am storing it as variables.

The problem is with the research engines.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769#1

“If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a “?” character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few.”

1) How can we solve this contradiction? The language selection is in the URL.
2) What languages would be indexed in Google, for those spiders that could crawl the language, the default one, or all?

Thank you.

Cheers.

I’m not interested in tracking links/click throughs, but email open rates. If google can’t do it, perhaps you know of some (free) software which can?

I need to copy a document created in google docs to a regular word pad document to attach to an email, I’m very limited with the software I have access to on this computer. How do I do this?
Thanks