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Originally Posted by Clint1
Not according to G employees at the G forums. In fact it even says this on the page you quoted. "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." You even mentioned that yourself. That article by Fox is from 10-2006, yet long after that, the G employees in the forums are saying dynamic URL's are not a good idea because they can be problematic.
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The key there is the highlighted part above - "not every search engine". The major players - Google, Yahoo, and MSN Search - don't have any difficulty as long as there are not too many parameters and you don't include session IDs which rely on cookies.
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Update to our webmaster guidelines
From Vanessa, a Google employee:
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if your site uses a dynamic structure that generates it, don't worry about rewriting it -- we'll accept it just fine as is... If you can, keeping the number of URL parameters to one or two may make it more likely that search engines will crawl your dynamic urls.
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