Today we are going to see about Static and Dynamic url’s .You are all familiar with static and dynamic websites ,
Static website
Websites are made out of html pages where there is no database ,
Dynamic websites
Websites are made up of programming and scripting language with a connection and retrieval of database
This what happens with urls too..
There are two types of URLs: dynamic and static. A dynamic URL is a page address that results from the search of a database-driven web site or the URL of a web site that runs a script. In contrast to static URLs, in which the contents of the web page stay the same unless the changes are hard-coded into the HTML, dynamic URLs are generated from specific queries to a site’s database. The dynamic page is basically only a template in which to display the results of the database query. Instead of changing information in the HTML code, the data is changed in the database.
Static website produces static url
For Example
http://www.example.com/example/example.html
Dynamic website produces dynamic urls
http://www.example.com/example/example.php?exampleid=12345&sort=date
Major problem is search engines doesn’t like these dynamic urls due to this many websites may lose their search engine positioning due to dynamic URLs like e-commerce stores, forums, sites utilizing content management systems and blogs like Mambo or WordPress, or any other database-driven website
First we will discuss about how a static site looks for a search engine
If a folder by name actor contains five actor pages which are static.It will be of the form
www.actor.com/actor/actor1.htm
……/actor2.htm
…../actor3.htm
So all these five pages get indexed by search engine
But when we look up in dynamic sites it is a great issue because look at this urls
http://www.example.com/actors/actorprofile.php?threadid=12345&sort=date
http://www.example.com/actors/actorprofile.php?threadid=12345&sort=date
http://www.example.com/actors/actorprofile.php?threadid=12345&sort=date
All three of these URLs point to three different pages. But if the search engine purges the information after the first offending character, the question mark (?), now all three pages look the same:
http:// www.example.com/actors/actorprofile.php
http:// www.example.com/actors/actorprofile.php
http:// www.example.com/actors/actorprofile.php
Now, you don’t have unique pages, and consequently, the duplicate URLs won’t be indexed. So Url duplication happens
There is a solution for converting this dynamic urls into a static one without editing the website code
The main problem of these dynamic urls is you will lose search engine ranking
Solution for this is Url Rewrite must be formed il provide you on my next post in details ,So keep searching….. happy weekend
If you are so eager then watch this video and find out the solution
Tags: dynamic urls, search engine friendly urls, static url
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