Number Pages

[reubenb]

Hi there,
I am not sure if this is the correct forum but I will say it anyway..
News Limited's Australian IT and various other news web sites choose to display there news pages like this, http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9318508%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
note the "0,7204,9318508%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html"
What is the point of these numbers? why cant they just have news.cfm?id=23985&cat=2 (or any other language)

[Roy Sinclair]

The idea is to make the URL of the article independant of the page which makes it available. That way each article has it's own bookmarkable URL and they remain free to use different technologies to deliver the page as long as the new technology doesn't force the creation of the new url (ie: news.php instead of news.chm).

[mindlessLemming]

That is what's often called "Friendy URLs" (although that one doesn't look too friendly!)
Because search engines stop when they hit a query string (index.htm?id=2229934), rewriting URLs this way allows the content to be indexed.