Well, I am not the best when it comes to computers and how blogging works 100%. But I was doing some searching on the internet and found out an interesting fact to share with you. But after reading some of these articles, it seems that this is still an ongoing study.
How many of you even knew that adding a question mark (?) at the end of your title could get you a lower ranking. Long ago, this was a consensus in the search engine industry.
Currently it seems that the search engine industry consensus is that Googles indexes URLs just fine and ranks them along with other URLs. But WAIT...unless there is a long number after the question mark or an "id=" in it which might indicate a session ID.
This study goes on to say that Google and Yahoo! do include some URls with question marks. It then says that Google has a little more than Yahoo! The average percentage of URLs with question marks is only about 5% on Google and 3% on Yahoo!. With this data, it states that Google does rank dynamic URLs lower with the question mark.
The conclusion from this study states that you shouldn't use dynamic URLs with question marks in them. And here is a short article on this information. Does a question mark in the URL affect ranking?
Overall, I would love to hear from Mary McKnight and others that know more about this and the affects of the QUESTION MARK. (?)
Now, keeping in mind that these were published theories and studies done a few years ago. I couldn't find any updated info. So for those tech savy people on here, please fill us in. But I found this to be interesting, as I learn what to do and what not to do.
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