Google won't currently index dynamic pages such as .cgi or .cfm. However, they have
recently begun indexing pages served over SSL in addition to indexing HTTP-served
pages, so security-conscious programmers (hopefully that includes all of us) should be
aware of this. I have a link to this story and Google's response to questioning about
it, but unfortunately I left it at work and am not VPN'd. If anyone is interested, I
can post a link to the story tomorrow.
Scot Robnett
inSite Internet Solutions
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-----Original Message-----
From: Octavian Rasnita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 9:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Are CGI pages indexed by search engines?
Hi all,
I want to make my web site and I don't know if it is a good idea to use many
CGI scripts to write html pages.
The server where I have my page doesn't allow SSI and I can't write HTML
pages that contains counters, etc, and I need to write the whole page as a
CGI script.
1. Do I have another option in this case?
I don't know if it is a good idea to make too many CGI scripts that create
web pages with links to the other pages and files because I am not sure if
the search engines will index my web site very well.
I read that Google indexes these pages but they don't recommend them.
I also read this on Google:
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: pdf, asp, jsp,
hdml,
shtml, xml, cfml, doc, xls, ppt, rtf, wks, lwp, wri.
2. In this list there is no CFM or CGI or pl.
Do you know if they will index these pages?
Thank you for some light.
Teddy,
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