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BRISK · 09-03-2004, 11:20 AM

ok all you search engine gurus, I've got a question.

If I have a site that is built using PHP that generates pages by getting text from a MySQL database, do search engines see this as a regular HTML page?

{fusion} · 09-03-2004, 11:31 AM

yep but im not sure how its weighted compared to html, but it will get spidered

BRISK · 09-03-2004, 11:34 AM

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Originally posted by {fusion}
yep but im not sure how its weighted compared to html, but it will get spidered

Nice. I thought so. Although I've read it is bad to have URLs with any "?" or "&" in them, but that is ok, I don't need to have that.

swami · 09-03-2004, 01:49 PM

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Originally posted by BRISK
Nice. I thought so. Although I've read it is bad to have URLs with any "?" or "&" in them, but that is ok, I don't need to have that.

No problem with Google or Yahoo with "?" or "&" in the urls as far as i am aware.

fris · 09-03-2004, 01:50 PM

sorry i missed my 9am lesson with wiredguy this morning ;)

WiredGuy · 09-03-2004, 01:52 PM

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Originally posted by fris
sorry i missed my 9am lesson with wiredguy this morning ;)

It's a long weekend, I need a break as well.
WG

RuthXtremePay · 09-03-2004, 02:50 PM

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Originally posted by BRISK
ok all you search engine gurus, I've got a question.

If I have a site that is built using PHP that generates pages by getting text from a MySQL database, do search engines see this as a regular HTML page?

They will probably see some of it.. but the best way to make sure that you can actually be fully seen by the engines is to perform a mod rewrite and this will then present your php generated pages as html pages to the engines.

It does take a lot of work, but it's worth it.

http://www.modrewrite.com/

Woodus · 10-02-2004, 02:38 PM

Helpful link, thanks.

Steen2 · 10-02-2004, 02:40 PM

Get some server guy to make .html/htm be treated (by your server) as .php.

That'll work

Webby · 10-02-2004, 02:42 PM

It's just me.. but I still prefer cgi on pages and delivery to browsers/robots "clean" and without any ? and & stuff....

Tho php like most stuff.. has a place - depending :-)

Linguist · 10-02-2004, 02:43 PM

Yup, mod_rewrite is a good thing.. you can also easily get rid of the ? by making the path like search.php/search-terms and then exploding it
But as was mentioned, major search engines will parse the & and ?'s

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