Re: [PHP] Google search indexing

2004-12-14 Thread Richard Lynch
> This is really two questions about Google indexing > Let's say I have a site in PHP & MySQL. > Let's say that I have some links on my site that use GET variables to > call other PHP pages and pass them a GET variable, like > > http://www.somesite.com/somedir/somepage.php?flag=15 > > The "flag" va

Re: [PHP] Google search indexing

2004-12-14 Thread Merlin
You could also use a file called for example "pictures" parse this file with php (use an apache directive for that) and add the filename. Then you can get the filename from the url and interprete it inside the php file "pictures". Its funny what you can do with php, and nobody will notice, not ev

Re: [PHP] Google search indexing

2004-12-14 Thread Jason Wong
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 02:04, Jason FB wrote: > Will Google see both pages if I have both linked with > tags? Or will it stop at the question mark, only loading the page > somepage.php and ignore the ?flag=14 and ?flag=15 or whatever? Will > it index ?flag=14 and ?flag=15 as two separate p

Re: [PHP] Google search indexing

2004-12-14 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Yes Google index the entire url including the HTTP_QUERY_STRING (the part after the question mark). You will see many warnings in old tutorials telling that the search enginnes don't index the entire url, but I don't think it is the case anymore. However, if you want to avoid this, or to just crea

Re: [PHP] Google search indexing

2004-12-14 Thread Richard Lynch
> I've heard different claims about how google handles GET queries and am > pretty sure it doesn't submit POSTed forms. I can guarantee that at least one time one search engine indexed a URL with GET data in it. Shocked the [bleep] out of me to find one of my dynamic pages in a search results pag

Re: [PHP] Google search indexing

2004-12-14 Thread James Stewart
On Dec 14, 2004, at 1:04 PM, Jason FB wrote: If the answers to the questions above are Yes and No, then I could use a dynamically generated list of links with ?flag= to make Google crawl through the part of the MySQL content (as displayed through the scripts in HTML) that I want it to, using lin