Re: Search engines and cookies

Search engines won't come past that page. How about setting a default region when a user enters a different page then your main page? Daniel Brown wrote:

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Emil Edeholt <emil@knmedical.se> wrote:

Hi, Do you guys how search engines like cookies? One site I'm working on now requires the user to select which region he/she is from on the start page. That value is stored in a cookie. So without cookies you can't get past the start page. Does this leave the search engines at the start page? Right now google only index the start pages on my site and I'm trying to figure out why. If I can't use cookies, how would you force users to select a region but letting the search engine spiders in on the site somehow?

One way to do it would be to allow Google (and/or other search engines) to access the site by bypassing the region-selection entirely. <?php if(preg_match('/Google/Uis',$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {

    // Allow Google to pass through.

} ?>