PHP/MySQL - Adding Unneccessary Information to Requested URL

kBisk
Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:11:39 +0000

I have a series of photo galleries being accessed using php/mysql.

If I want to link to, say, gallery/?id=5 (or in the case of the clean apache urls, gallery/5) … is there any advantage in adding the gallery name to the link url for search engines? that is, **gallery/?id=5&name=My-Photo-Gallery **(or gallery/5/My-Photo-Gallery) even though the name isn’t actually required to display the page?

Just wondering if its a waste of time to add the name to the url, or should I just be accessing them only through the specific ids…

thanks.

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