Re: Re: Submitting variables via /'s

"Chris Hobbs" <chobbs@silvervalley.k12.ca.us> wrote in message news:3BC2219E.4040505@silvervalley.k12.ca.us... > John A. Grant wrote: > > > Are you saying that a site can not be catalogued by a spider > > if if ?var=x syntax is used? So if I put all of the pages in a > > database and used links like this: > > xxx.php?page=1 > > then those pages would all be invisible to the spider? But if > > I use this syntax: > > xxx.php/1 > > then they are visible? > > It's not a matter of can't, it's a matter of won't. Many search engines > won't follow links that are clearly queries (?var=whatever), for good or > ill. Using a pathinfo means of setting vars will generally fool those > engines into visiting everywhere on your site. > > Here's some more info on it: > > http://www.zend.com/zend/spotlight/searchengine.php Thanks. That's very timely, because I was just setting up some pages with hardcoded "query" syntax. I will amend my code. -- John A. Grant * I speak only for myself * (remove 'z' to reply) Radiation Geophysics, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa If you followup, please do NOT e-mail me a copy: I will read it here