Dynamic VS Static URL

dynamic VS Static URL...

is this still the case? or has search engines (mainly google) have improved their bots to work better with dynamic urls.

my whole website is dynamic URL (index.php?... so on)

please advice, im really concern as some one told me dynamic links is a big no no.

I have seen plenty of sites that use dynamic urls and rank high. What I recommend it keeping the parameters being passed to a minimum, like only one. For example:

http://www domian com/product.cfm?product_id=123

When you start passing five, six, seven plus parameters, it could get hairy:

http://www domian com/product.cfm?product_id=123&format=big&year=2007&color=red&size=large&sex=female&site=123&url=999

The site I work with is dynamic, but the urls look like it is static.

yea that makes sense..

r u using .htaccess to make dynamic sites look static by any chance?

Static URLs are considered best by the search engine robots, but if u are using dynamic ones, then the parameters should be as less as possible....as JBDK said.

The issue with dynamic URLs is that though Google can crawl and index dynamic pages but there are doubts whether other SEs can deal with such pages as smoothly as Google.

Apart from that, dynamic pages often have similar Titles which lead them to supp index.

Though Google can crawl dynamic pages, still it says that it Prefers static URLs

There could be two very strong reasons for you to rewrite your URLs. One of them is related to Search Engine Optimization and the other one would be the increase in usability for web users, and in maintainability for webmasters. Clean URLs are much easier to remember. A regular web surfer will find hard to remember a URL full of parameters, not to mention that they would be discouraged by the idea of typing, one character at a time, the entire URL. And they could also mistype it, and not get to where they wanted.

Another problem with long URLs is that if you send one in an email, some email programs truncate the URLs to only one line so they dont work.

When I use the web mail from my provider and receive a domain renewal notice and click on the link it doesn't work because some of the parameters are missed when I click the link. I obviously know to cut and pas the second line into the URL string as well but some less web savy browsers would just not view the link they were sent. This is another reason to have short sharp descriptive URLs!