>
> I was wondering if anyone can enlighten me about the ability of search
> engines to read and list PHP pages. I have been told that because PHP
> produces a dynamic html page (i.e. one that possibly outputs
> different HTML
> for each hit or request) that they are not easily added to search engines
> (if this is true though what would be the point of having any
> html pages if
> you can't update or change them at anytime?). Another point was
> made to me
> was that many PHP pages require additional commands to be passed
> through the
> URL eg www.domain.com.au/writestufft.php?variable=foobar which search
> engines find hard to deal with also.
> If any of these are true or if there are such problems which
> could result in
> the page not getting listed then what are the options.
> My only idea has come from the [PHP]url hide thread in which a index.html
> single 'wrapper frame' could be applied to the entire site.
> Any Ideas
>
Search-engines read HTML, what drives that HTML is entirely irrelevant.
... however, some searchengines do not index pages that have variables on
the url, so those pages will never be indexed by that particular
searchengine.
But other searchengines will spider about everything (I think google spiders
a lot, including dynamic pages) - but realize that the searchengine always
contains a snapshot of your page, most likely one taken weeks ago.
If you want to be totally searchengine-safe, do not use variables on the
url, do not rely on cookies and do not rely on POST variables for the pages
you want to have the searchengine spider.
Also, you could make a robots.txt file and instruct the searchengines to
spider only particular pages on your site.
-Sander
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