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[ConfusedNewbie]

Hi all

Firstly, I promise I haven't broken or sandboxed anything this time. At least not yet.

On a typepad blog we've recently started doing, I've written a couple of articles listing the top 20 brands in terms of throughput, as a general interest kind of thing, but I suppose it might give us an seo push on some terms in a way I don't really understand - somehow people have found the articles in India, France, Taiwan and Norway, which puzzles me slightly, but hey ho.

Anyway - here's the idea - let's say I'm selling cakes. Here's my list of top 20 brands

1. Jaffa Cakes - 12% sold
2. Mr Kiplings Lemon Slice - 10% sold
3. Battenburg - 8 % sold

etc... if it's a top 20, and if I put a link on each brand that goes to the same "buy a cake" page, but with the parameters changed for the type of cake they might want to buy, would that be link spamming, or a helpful and efficient method of getting people to convert ? How would the engines view it ?

Many Thanks

As ever,

ConfusedNewbie.

[Randy]

but with the parameters changed for the type of cake they might want to buy

If the parameters/variables are changing, the URL is also changing. The search engines will see each of those as separate and distinct URL addresses. Thus different pages.

And that's exactly how they'll see it. A page linking to 20 different pages of the same domain. Nothing at all wrong with that.

[ConfusedNewbie]

If the parameters/variables are changing, the URL is also changing. The search engines will see each of those as separate and distinct URL addresses. Thus different pages.

And that's exactly how they'll see it. A page linking to 20 different pages of the same domain. Nothing at all wrong with that.

Finally, something I get right !

Cheers Randy !