Do spiders crawl .asp?

**gatorgrad** · 09-11-2005, 06:07 AM

Hey guys, quick newbie question.

I recently converted my site over to .asp.
Will the spiders still crawl through those pages??

I finally got a PR2 last update and I don't want to lose it

**nts** · 09-11-2005, 07:02 AM

Yes, they crawl them, since I have seen .asp pages listed under google results.

**gatorgrad** · 09-11-2005, 11:20 AM

good...i didn't want to do anything to jeopardize my PR rank.

**katherine** · 09-11-2005, 01:15 PM

Depends if you use parameters in your scripts like
www.yoursite.com/page.asp?article=1912
then you should seriously consider using a URL rewriting scheme like mod_rewrite (for Apache) so you could have your URLs automatically converted to search engine friendly format like:
www.yoursite.com/article/1912

**Blarian** · 09-12-2005, 09:30 AM

Originally Posted by sdsinc

Depends if you use parameters in your scripts like
www.yoursite.com/page.asp?article=1912
then you should seriously consider using a URL rewriting scheme like mod_rewrite (for Apache) so you could have your URLs automatically converted to search engine friendly format like:
www.yoursite.com/article/1912

Agreed. Just wanted to add that they MAY crawl them, but they also MAY only include one of the page.asp in their search results and ignore any other ? parameter pages or even worse consider it duplicate content depending on the actual contnet of the page.