Are urls with ?page=something bad for SEO?

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Is a URL with a query string better or worse for SEO then one without one?

I have a listing of members on my homepage. My dynamic urls are quite simple:

http://mysite.com/members?page=8

I just use the query parameter to go from page to page. Is this bad for SEO? Should I be doing something like this instead?:

http://mysite.com/members/page/8

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 11 '12 at 23:05

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The short answer is that with simple key/value query strings like yours, there's no issue.

answered Apr 11 '12 at 23:05

Mike Hudson

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In Google Webmaster Tools you can now state that a specific URL parameter is used for pagination: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/improved-handling-of-urls-with.html – MrWhite Apr 11 '12 at 23:18

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