Yes Google index the entire url including the HTTP_QUERY_STRING (the part after the question mark). You will see many warnings in old tutorials telling that the search enginnes don't index the entire url, but I don't think it is the case anymore. However, if you want to avoid this, or to just create URLS more simple to remember, use the Apache module mod_rewrite. This way, you can let the server automaticly trranslate an url like http://www.site.com/program/var1/var2/var3 in a URl like http://www.site.com/program?v1=var1&v2=var2&v3=var3 ...or any other translations. The first link will be easier to remember and the search engines will see it as a static web page. The search engines won't submit any form, so they are not parsed at all. Use common links if you want them to be indexed. Teddy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason FB" <jasonfb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 8:04 PM Subject: Google search indexing Follow up question: At 4:39 PM +0000 12/14/04, Richard Davey wrote: >sp> does anybody know how does google (and other search engines) >index websites >sp> implemented in PHP + MySQL? For instance, sites which use PHP based CMS >sp> (Content Management Systems)? > >It doesn't. It indexes the HTML that they output. As far as Google is >concerned you could have a thousand trained monkies typing like mad >for your CMS, it still only cares about the output - the HTML. > >sp> Someone told us google spiders do call for the pages so they only see the >sp> resulting HTML code. Is that right? > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
