xanderman wrote:in what situation would someone use the "?page" method? is that method search engine friendly?
When you are attempting to make all of your scripts run from a central script, you would employ a method like that.
xanderman wrote: is that method search engine friendly?
Most search engines index all of those pages fine. But all the engines weigh them differently. The best approach is to get as much of the content to change as possible and use a form of URL rewritting to get the URLs like so:
website.com/index.php/var1/var2/var3
I have employed a method (an algorithm) to allow you to use the URL type as seen above and a method to emply it. I can share it with you if you are interested.
It can be seen on: http://www.mobilitycartrentals.com/index.php/products/view/VIC5CTLT2/Pride+Victory+3+Wheel+Mobility+Cart
You could also use the Apache mod_rewrite
