Is my web site web site developer doing something fishy?

[pentium]

From reviewing several online sites, my web site's
URL address shows up as http://216.109.131.194/ vs. http://www.probiotic-lab.com/ .
Does this imply the first URL is going to be indexed by search engines and not my domain name?

[roban]

Sorry but I'm not sure what you mean by "From reviewing several online sites,"

[TipPro]

When you request to visit a Web site using a domain name (http://www.probiotic-lab.com/) your Web browser sends a request to a DNS server(domain name server) to get the ip translation of the domain name (http://216.109.131.194/).

It's not fishy. Submit your domain name to google and everything will be fine.

By the way, your urls are awful! Make sure your developer works on them before your site launches. For example your url for your FAQ is http://probiotic-lab.com/store/scrip...ra.asp?extra=8 it would be much better if it was... http://probiotic-lab.com/faq (with or without an extension)

It is an easy fix that will really help get your Web site indexed by Google and the other search engines.

[pentium]

Thanks TipPro, regarding my url's. This is what I was told.
Actually it won't help your indexing at any search engine including Google because.I purposefully created your site so that all the links on the index page are hard coded not brought up from a database. It would be a waste of your money to make the changes. TipPro, is this true or false?

[TipPro]

Your Web site designer is inexperienced. I really hope for your sake that your Web site is not hard coded! If it is hardcoded your designer just wasted a lot of your money. From the looks of it though, it does look dynamic (maybe not database driven but atleast not completely static).

The url changes I was refering to is not a waste of money. It takes about 2 minutes of work. Maybe your designer did not understand how it is done.


Below is an example using your Web site...

The current url for your probiotic skin care lotion...
http://www.probiotic-lab.com/store/s...p?idproduct=17

it would be much better if the url was more like this...
http://www.probiotic-lab.com/probiotic_skin_care.htm

the above url may be tough to create but an easy one that can be created in a couple minutes of work would be like this...
http://www.probiotic-lab.com/skin_care_products/17

The above url can be done easily by adding a rewrite rule in your .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-s
RewriteRule ^skin_care_products/(.*) /store/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=$1


After you apply this rewrite rule your Website goes from looking dynamic to looking static. Many people spend so much money for seo services to create duplicate static versions of their dynamic Web sites when the same effect can be done easily with a little bit of programming. The only true advantage of a static Web site over a dynamic Web site is the load speeds (if a spider experiences slow load speeds it will skip pages, something that is usually experienced when the spider has 1000 threads requesting seperate pages at the same time).

By the way to back up my advice that having betters urls will help your Web page to be fully indexed correctly here is what google has to say about the subject... http://www.google.com/support/webmas...31&ctx=sibling

If you want to learn more information about the subject do a search for dynamic urls and search engines.