A Question about PHP dynamic pageas and site indexing

[catman]

Hello everyone,


This is my first post. I have been an avid reader here for a while and finally decided to dive in. I have a concern about one of my sites that someone here might be able to help me with:


I have a site with a PHP game on it.


I have adsense on the page.


As the user plays the game he/she submits info to the game as part of playing it. When the user plays and submits info the address changes.


Example:


before submitting domain.com/game.php


After submitting domain.com/game.php?576545086086876tyuuy9768768


This second string will almost always be different each time somebody plays.


I have read that Google may try to index these dynamic pages and finish up banning the site for spam because it looks to them as though all these are new pages being created.


Could I disallow with a no follow in robots.txt and also would it ok to disallow these dynamic pages and still run adsense while somebody is playing the game?

 

[DomainRealty]

Wrong

Google will stop when it sees a query string

Jason

 

[catman]

Thank you Domainreality, so I don't have anything to worry about at all then?

 

[DomainRealty]

Well, it is an example of poor SEO. What you should do is mod_rewrite all the query strings to something like this:

http://yoursite/game/576545086086876tyuuy9768768

Just a cardinal rule of SEO. That long number should also be converted to an English word/phrase

Jason

 

[catman]

Thank you Jason,

Excellent point, I will implement that and thank you very much for your helpful and informative answers.

 

[Grower]

I have read that Google may try to index these dynamic pages and finish up banning the site for spam because it looks to them as though

No it won't. Duplicate content within 1 site is normal. Google would choose the strongest page and index it.

Wrong
Google will stop when it sees a query string
Jason

Wrong. A lot of indexed content has query stings in them. Not every site uses mod_rewrite.

 

[DomainRealty]

Well, Google's spiders find it harder to index query-string(ed) URLs.

Jason

 

[catman]

Having done some experimentation on this, I've decided that the mid-game pages wouldn't make any sense to somebody coming in at that stage so there is no need to have them indexed so as long as they don't cause me a problem with Google mistaking them as a lot of automated content trying to get indexed the I don't have a problem.


From both Jason's and Grower's answers it would appear that I don't have a problem. Thanks again guys.