On Wednesday 15 December 2004 02:04, Jason FB wrote: > Will Google see both pages if I have both linked with <A HREF=""> > tags? Or will it stop at the question mark, only loading the page > somepage.php and ignore the ?flag=14 and ?flag=15 or whatever? Will > it index ?flag=14 and ?flag=15 as two separate pages (which is really > what I want, since they produce different content), or will it treat > both as the same page? A quick google would have answered your question! Just have a look at some typical search results and you'll see that Google will index those dynamic pages.http://www.metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.mhtml > Will Google submit the form, perhaps a couple of different ways and > treat each resulting page differently, or will it just bypass the > form altogether? AFAIK search engines don't submit forms. It would be extremely impolite to do so. Imagine a form for comments and Google "enters" some rubbish and submits it. > If the answers to the questions above are Yes and No, then I could > use a dynamically generated list of links with ?flag= to make Google > crawl through the part of the MySQL content (as displayed through the > scripts in HTML) that I want it to, using links and GET variables, > right? Yes, that usually works. > it see that content I want it to see? Does anyone use the error.php > page to catch for a 404 Not Found error, see if it can match the > "ghost" name to a record in the DB, and display a page anyway (even > though technically there is no somepage.php page, the error.php page > knows to go look in the databsae for "somepage" and displays its > content)? I wonder if this would be a good optimization strategy. Are we still talking about search engines? Strictly speaking no search engine (crawler to be precise) should ever try to access a non-existent page. If you have moved pages around and want a search engine to still be able to access the now non-existent page then you should issue the correct HTTP header code for "resource moved permanently" (or whatever) and redirect to the new page. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. */ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
