[fraggle]

Hi
I am putting a site together which consists of my index.php and ?page=xyz for navigation. I was wondering though, as most of my pages are articles/features with a lot of text that I want search engines to crawl, if google for example picked up on a search term and provided a link in it's result page, will it go to index.php?page=pagewithsearchterm or just go to searchterm.php therefore leaving out the guts of my layout and styles?

before iI go any further with the site I would like to know what route i should take so search engine results show the site as it should look. Or should I just create a template page which contains all the included menus and other stuff?

does this make sense?

Thanks in advance

[nugensoftware]

Yes it will index those pages if you have them linked within your site.

For instance, lets say your have a page named view.php and your content is identified by label:

http://www.mysite.com/view.php?label=12345 is fine, results for this page will vary search engine to search engine.

Sometimes search engines will link your main domain with another sub search result item for the actual content. It depends on the keywords that have been searched for amongst other things that have to do with ranking.

Almost all major search engines can tell the difference when content has changed within pages like this.

There is a length and complexity limit with some search engines (including google) for the URL. I am not sure if this information is publicly available though, I can't recall reading it.

I haven't personally ran into any issues when using small amounts of information like the above example followed by 3 more 'labels' with similar values set after them.

[fraggle]

Thanks for that, I will only have a couple of labels so should be ok

cheers