# Tuesday, March 09, 2004

dasBlog and Google searches

I had noted that the search hits on this site from Google seemed to be decreasing since the move to dasBlog. Since I had done some code edits I presumed it was just me, but I've just done a search of this site Google has clearly not indexed anything recent. Found this:

I was reading Steve's blog with my browser earlier today when I noticed his odd permalink url's. Instead of a url like "http://devhawk.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=9abbd5ea-3a10-44d8-8872-877033b7349c", his look like "http://hyperthink.net/blog/PermaLink,guid,fc99ce5e-b748-44f0-853d-0a261632b885.aspx". Turns out it's a standard feature of dasBlog! Just check "Enable URL rewriting" in the config page and you're set. Now my permalink url's look like Steve's.

Since Google doesn't index pages based on query string, this feature should make my site more easily crawled and googled.

 [via dasBlog">DevHawk - Passion * Technology * Ruthless Competence]

I don't particularly care whether Google indexes these pages (since the latest version of dasBlog does search - hooray), I'm just interested as to whether the above change does make a difference.

#    Comments [2] |
Saturday, March 20, 2004 7:35:31 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Certainly seems to have. It's not actually that G doesn't index pages with query strings, so much as that it doesn't like to risk long query string values when the variable name includes "id", because that smells like a session id. If rather than ?guid= dasBlog used ?whatever=bunchacrap then Google would be fine with it.

But it would still suck. Over and over I wind up needing to be sure that a permalink to someone's post is the one I think it is, and if it's /peteblog/dasblog-and-google-searches.aspx I'll know, but if it's just enough hex digits to allow you to have twelve squillion posts without running out of id numbers I have to follow it to see which it is.
Phil Ringnalda
Sunday, October 05, 2008 10:32:40 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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