RE: [PHP] Googlebot (not another rtfm-mail)

2004-01-29 Thread Williams, Olwen - SAL
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 1:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Googlebot (not another rtfm-mail) At 17:58 28-1-04, you wrote: >On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 11:51:06 -0500, Michael Mulligan wrote: > > Googlebot visits my site occasionally and follows a lot of my PHP

Re: [PHP] Googlebot (not another rtfm-mail)

2004-01-29 Thread Chris Hayes
At 17:58 28-1-04, you wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 11:51:06 -0500, Michael Mulligan wrote: > Googlebot visits my site occasionally and follows a lot of my PHP links > with long query strings... same here, google has been indexing my php site for over 3 years now :) I find the google site is NOT

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-28 Thread Mat Harris
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 11:51:06 -0500, Michael Mulligan wrote: > Googlebot visits my site occasionally and follows a lot of my PHP links > with long query strings... same here, google has been indexing my php site for over 3 years now :) -- A Pope has a Water Cannon.

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-28 Thread Michael Mulligan
Googlebot visits my site occasionally and follows a lot of my PHP links with long query strings... -Mike __ Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! __ On Jan 28, 2004, at 8:34 AM, Jon Bennett wrote: Does that go

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-28 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 08:34, Jon Bennett wrote: > > is that it tends to avoid or downgrade URI's with parameters tacked > > onto > > the end. > > Does that go for internal links in your site then ??? > > news.php?start=10 etc ??? Could be tricky writing dyamic pages then. > mod_rewrite is your

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-28 Thread Stuart
Jon Bennett wrote: is that it tends to avoid or downgrade URI's with parameters tacked onto the end. Does that go for internal links in your site then ??? news.php?start=10 etc ??? Could be tricky writing dyamic pages then. Some spiders will not visit URLs with query strings, some will. Those tha

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-28 Thread Jon Bennett
is that it tends to avoid or downgrade URI's with parameters tacked onto the end. Does that go for internal links in your site then ??? news.php?start=10 etc ??? Could be tricky writing dyamic pages then. Thanks, Jon jon bennett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] new media creative _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-28 Thread Jon Bennett
from google http://www.google.com/webmasters/facts.html Fiction: Sites are not included in Google's index if they use ASP (or some other non-html file-type.) Fact: At Google, we are able to index most types of pages and files with very few exceptions. File types we are able to index include:

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-27 Thread Mike Migurski
Is Googlebot (or any other bot) able to follow links that are php? > >As others have already pointed out to you, what better place to find >information about google than google? That, or your server logs - googlebot is great about identifying itself. RTFM's aside, a little understanding of ho

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-27 Thread Raditha Dissanayake
As others have already pointed out to you, what better place to find information about google than google? Frank Tudor wrote: That's not very helpful. I am also curious about this. Anyone have a more thought provoking answer? Frank --- Raditha Dissanayake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-27 Thread Stuart
Frank Tudor wrote: Anyone have a more thought provoking answer? Do some minimal research (Google is good for this) and you would find the answers yourself. Hartley, Matt wrote: Is Googlebot (or any other bot) able to follow links that are php? Yes. Most spiders will crawl over most types of URL.

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-27 Thread Ben Ramsey
Perhaps this link will help: http://www.google.com/webmasters/ Frank Tudor wrote: That's not very helpful. I am also curious about this. Anyone have a more thought provoking answer? Frank --- Raditha Dissanayake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you read the pages on google you will know the answ

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-27 Thread Frank Tudor
That's not very helpful. I am also curious about this. Anyone have a more thought provoking answer? Frank --- Raditha Dissanayake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you read the pages on google you will know the answer. > > Hartley, Matt wrote: > > >Is Googlebot (or any other bot) able to follow

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-27 Thread Raditha Dissanayake
If you read the pages on google you will know the answer. Hartley, Matt wrote: Is Googlebot (or any other bot) able to follow links that are php? e.g. Contact Us Is there a way to invite bots to your site? Thanks Matt -- Raditha Dissanayake. ---

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-27 Thread Stuart
Hartley, Matt wrote: Is Googlebot (or any other bot) able to follow links that are php? e.g. Contact Us Yes. Is there a way to invite bots to your site? For most, yes. -- Stuart -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php