Re: Search engines and mod_rewrite

Tom, I can't be sure, since I'm not too knowledgeable with this, but I would think this would work just fine. The search engine should be seeing the URL just as the user would. Further, a site I know does a similar trick (though I'm not sure they use mod_rewrite) where /users/username is converted into something.pl?user=username and they get indexed, so I can't think of any reason you're case would be any different. - Steve "Tom Carter" <tcarter@roundcorners.com> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.33.0105130930360.29915-100000@raq105.uk2net.com... > hi all, > > On one of my sites we make extensive use of variable passed through the > url, particullarly for browsing the main content of the site which is > organised into main and sub categories, eg > browse.php?maincat=Weather&subcat=sunny kind of thing. > > I understand from colleagues who know much on these things that public > search engines bots (eg google) stop parsing thru that part of the site > when they reach a '?' (I could well be wrong on this). > > a way around this that I have heard is installing the mod_rewrite module > in apache and mapping browse/weather/sunny to > browse.php?maincat=weather&subcat=sunny. > > Would this in fact even fix the problem? Its a hard thing to test! > > Does anyone have any experience using this? And what is the advice from > people on how best to get google&co to spider your site and find your > content effectively? > > Thanks in advance > > Tom > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >