Does it matter if browse.php?c= is in product ulrs
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Hi
Long time reader 1st time questionairer (is that even a word?)
Anyway I have started working for a company on a project and as I am in house they obviously throw everything they can at me.
Todays question was about the seo friendliness for one of their sites
http://www.angellovenails.com/newsite
I am going through and finding better keywords for categories and pages. I know that there are pages with 200+ outbound links which need fixing.
My question is about the url structure
The product on this page is nail feathers, the url is
http://www.angellovenails.com/newsite/browse.php?c=angelwingnailfeathers
No matter what page of products you go to it includes
browse.php?c=
For seo purposes is this going to be a problem?
I appreciate that we (which means me I think) will be adding content to the pages and the product names could be more keyword friendly. But I have no clue if we need to do something about the browse.php bit or not.
Thanks for any help
Paul Forcey
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I wouldn't have structured it that way myself. i would have gone with something like domain.com/productname for easier readability, but you've already structured it it sounds like. I wouldn't change it if it's already been spidered.
To answer your question, no it doesn't hurt. Google sees page.php?c=1234 and page.php?c=1235 as different pages.
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