I have heard many people say (some in this group) that search
engines "do not like links that smell like dynamically generated pages,
IE where the URL is loaded with descriptive GET parameters, like:
A)
some_script.php?Subcategory=Power+Tools&tooltype=woodworking
People who have supported that assertion often suggest using
mod_rewrite tricks so links like the above can be displayed as
something
more like:
B)
/sitemap/Powertools/woodworking.html ....or whatever.
And yet, dynamic-looking links, like example B do show up
in keyword searches all the time--at least in Google searches anyway.
So is there any optimization difference, at Google, between URL(A)
and URL(B) above? Both types are indexed. Will the static-looking link
get a slight page rank advantage?
Or is the original prejudice against dynamic-looking links now a myth?
