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[chilluk]

We have run a number of Google Content Experiments for pages that do not have a rewritten URL on our site (search page mostly) and so we just created a PageName2.aspx version of PageName.aspx - it seems to work fine with all dynamic querystring parameters etc.

 

Now we want to do similar with rewritten urls. So on our site we have say /category/blue-widgets/999 where 999 is a specifc ID and this rewrite rule (IIS7) is pointed at Category.aspx?ID=999

 

So I am wondering how I create alternative versions of the page to run the experiments - do I need to have /category2/blue-widgets/999 pointing to Category2.aspx?ID=999 or is there a better way?

 

Thanks

 

Chris

[chilluk]

Hmm I have created the rewrite rules and pages so that I can have the following URLs

 

/category/blue-widgets/999

/category2/blue-widgets/999

 

with each url showing the different variation. However I can't work out how to create the experiment to redirect with the variables intact?!

[Michael Martinez]

So, do I understand correctly that you want to trick Google into indexing search results pages that they have clearly -- time and again -- said they do not want to index?

[chilluk]

Err no - this is for an experiment hence the thread title - we are currently experimenting with category page layouts.

 

It's sorted now anyway - I used a relative URL for the variation page and then added a quesrystring parameter. Then in my rewriting rules in IIS7 I directed off to the actual physical page using the querystring param as a condition.