Can this URL Format be indexed?

Main Site
http://www.stayinnorthcarolina.com


URL Format under question
http://www.stayinnorthcarolina.com/output.asp?id=st5

yes. So long as there is a link that the spider can follow to get to that URL, the search engine should be able to index it.

It's when you start to get to three or more parameters in a URL string that you start to run into trouble. Though even with three, if the site is well set-up, you may not have problems.

Google and other engines have tons of dynamic URLs in them, and they get better at spidering them all the time.

It seems the forum did not pass my exact URL. Here is the URL under question.

---"output.asp?id=st5"----

Still, yes. As long as there's a link to it and it doesn't include more than three parameters it will most likely be indexed/crawled.

Make sure that none of the parameters looks like a session ID.

Google does not like those.

I would say no. If you manually select property types and locations you resolve to /output.asp. Even if Googlebot, and Yahoo-bot could select property choices they would resolve to /output.asp. Which does not resolve to the same choices when revisiting /output.asp.

I would suggest a generating a site map pointing to each individual porperty. That way the robots could see a consistant page to index and rank.