By aditogs on

Hi,

Don't have the ability to use clean urls (fasthosts), so using autopath instead.

I notice theres still a '=?whatever_the_title_is' does google like the =? (or at least not hate it!?)

I have a whole load of pages I'm looking to transfer, if I know that google likes it and it wont be a waste of time!...

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vincentc’s picture

vincentc commented

Hello,

I'm not sure I understand your message : pathauto (I assume that's what you mean by "autopath" ;-)) and clean urls are 2 different - although related - things :

The 2 can be combined or used separately.

Now to answer your question, I'd say it's removing the "?q=" part that helps with Google.

Some people say having explicit words in the URL helps but I'm really not sure it does : have a look at the Google PR of the pages on the Drupal website : most of them don't have path aliases and look something like http://drupal.org/node/6548 but they have an excellent PR.

Good luck,
Vincent

aditogs’s picture

aditogs commented

If I can't get clean urls what impact does this have on google?

Will pages still be indexed with the '?='?

Is there anything I can do to activate them when I don't have access to the http.conf (or whatever it is) in Apache?

vincentc’s picture

vincentc commented

I'm no SEO expert so I'm not sure how exactly it will affect your site's ranking, but what I know is your pages WILL get indexed with the "?q=". There are plenty of them in Google's index already.

As to how to implement clean URLs, I can't help, I had my webhost take care of that.

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toma commented

Take a look at

http://drupal.org/node/67767

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ahashim’s picture

ahashim commented

Sure,
Pathauto and clean URL can make a big difference in Google search.
I tried it myself in http://www.egjug.org
also the SiteMap and GSiteMap
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Ahmed Hashim
http://www.egjug.org
Egypt

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johnchalekson commented

http://www.pagecharts.com - http://www.alexacharts.com - http://www.thingstoday.com -

I have made several "test" sites, and I fear that google has banned the content because it only indexes the index page, none of the other pages. have i made a terrible mistake and produced a lot of duplicate content that can be considered to be a 'link farm'? is any of the damage that i did do reversible?

i now have robots.txt disallowed for all of the nodes. not sure if that will reinstate my status, but i do have gsite module and pathauto running. is it bad to have gsite running and making a lot of submissions on each chron?

thanks for the advice..

john chalekson

marcoBauli’s picture

marcoBauli commented

can i ask if you find a solution to this?

i also built different test sites in sub-folders of my main domain (ex: mydomain/test-site) and on different domain names i do not use (ex: otherdomain.com/drupal) and am fearing the same thing because only my main homepage gets indexed, nothing more except the old test-site pages...

please, any advice greatly apreciated!