There are different ways of using URL slugs to specify the location of website content. For example, slugs can be implemented as:
- Query strings:
example.com/some_function?slug=the_url_slug
- Arguments directly following the domain name:
example.com/the_url_slug
- Arguments following a function and/or controller name:
example.com/some_function/the_url_slug
Can somebody explain how much relative weight the top search engines assign to these different ways of using URL slugs?
For example, would the second variant in the list above be ranked more highly than the other two variants? Is the query string URL slug variant even treated as part of the URL by search engines?