Re: Serving pages based on user input

tedd schreef:

At 9:55 PM -0700 8/23/08, Prasad Chand wrote:

This is off-topic, but the reason I was touchy about includes was because it could create seo problems. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=31519

any takers on how the above link was found? lol

Bzzzzttt -- nope -- two different types of "includes".

indeed, there is an SEO issue with URLs google et al see as being 'dynamic' i.e. with large numbers of params BUT 1. this is not at all black and white, and really unless your fighting tooth and nail with well clued up SEO pirates for every SERP hit ... your probably not going notice. 2. it's way above the OP's abilities ... good (& Honest[tm]) SEO is hard, well at least if your in a cut-throat market like real-estate (JMHO). 3. the OP was using a form to post a request for a certain bit of content ... I personally have never assumed that a search engine would go through a form, they might do that (occasionally?), but I'd personally make sure I'd have all pages I want indexed linked to via simple links and not hidden behind forms.

The link above is discussing having data included the url and not php includes. The advice/code that Jochem gave you was using php includes which is a completely different critter. I use php includes for all my sites and don't have any problem whatsoever with SEO.

I think the SEO argument stems from the fact that different content would seem to come from a single URL ... indeed not good for SEO, but that comes down to shit design it's not a fault of php includes.

Cheers, tedd