[geeklog-devel] Search engine indexing...

[Simon Lord]

Great, so if someone got this working, can you please post the  
solution?  Much appreciated.

On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 09:44 AM, Tony Bibbs wrote:

> Simon, this is nothing new.  At last test, the url rewriting stuff I  
> came
> up with didn't work on windows because of a known PHP bug.  I know Tom  
> and
> a few others took another stab at this and I'm not sure if thiers works
> under windows or not.
>
> --Tony
>
>  On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Simon Lord wrote:
>
>> Ok, I found another useful snippet of code that I think MUST be
>> included into the Geeklog code.
>>
>> Here is the first paragraph from the page link below:
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> "Anyone who has built template based sites that use query strings to
>> select content will have at some point hit the problem of indexing (or
>> lack of it) by search engines. Search engine spiders won't index
>> dynamic sites, as they are worried about getting stuck in a maze of
>> twisty URLs, all alike."
>>
>> "We want to turn this
>>
>> http://www.somesite.co.uk/ 
>> site.php?section=books&subsection=architecture
>>
>> into this
>>
>> http://www.somesite.co.uk/site/books/architecture
>>
>> which involves masking the file extension for the processing file and
>> then giving the query string a shave and a haircut."
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> This way, all our Geeklog pages get indexed and found by Google.  You
>> can thank James, my server admin, for pointing me to this page.
>>
>> http://www.evolt.org/article/
>> Search_Engine_Friendly_URLs_with_PHP_and_Apache/17/15049/index.html%22
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Simon
>>
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>
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Sincerely,
Simon