Hi,

In template mylinks_link.html, URL are set like this :
<a href='visit.php?cid=<{$link.cid}>&lid=<{$link.id}>'

But can I remove the category ID (cid) parameter like this :
<a href='visit.php?lid=<{$link.id}>' ?

I'm asking this question because I'm optimizing my website for search robots (google...) and would like to know if it will break something.

I have tried and I have seen no difference.

Thanks

Yes and no.

It will still follow the link fine for now, but the CID has a wide range of purposes in sorting links, and although it will work fine now, it may be a problem in future versions of XOOPS if you change it.

I'm not sure it would make a different to SE's anyways though. The major problem with search engines in the query string "?". Although several search engines allow the string, a few still don't.

Google loves it.

That help?

Well the problem is that this page "/mylinks/singlelink.php?cid=6&lid=125" and this page "/mylinks/singlelink.php?lid=125" are the same.

When google will run through my site, he will find 2 page instead of one.
So in fact the 2 pages will be index in google but with a lesser pagerank as if there was only one page.

Btw, thx for the answer, with the change activated, I need to pay more attention next time I upgrade XOOPS