Search Engine Optimization

[HandcraftedUK]

Hello, I've been looking into search engine optimization and have found the following:

Search Engine 'Unfriendly' Dynamic URL's
Unfriendly dynamic URL's are a common side effect of using a Content Management System that is not designed with search engine rankings kept in mind. Here are some examples of some unfriendly URL's:

Sample:
http://www.mydomain.com/myproducts.p...333&subproduct

These URLs are problematic because a search engine may consider these addresses too complex to spider. Why too complex? Suffice it to say that the more complex the URL, the higher the chance that a search engine robot will consider the content too dynamic to read; it changes too often to be valuable to a search engine.

The way around these types of URLs is actually not so difficult; it may only require a small investment of time and money. The 'time' will be required when researching which URL fix is right for your system. The money may be required to pay a programmer to implement and test the new URLs.


My question - Does Zencart not create it's URL's in this way as it appears the ones on my site resemble this. Does it harm search engine ranking and, if so, how easy would it be to change the URL's?

Thanks,

Gary

[kobra]

If you are concerned about this, and it is an issue:

SEO Optimization Module

[Kim]

Zen Cart's long URLs are spidered and ranked fine.

Example: http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...&products_id=3

PR 7/10 - last crawled on the 22nd