Bud,
Have your client go to Altavista and type in "Authentic Country Traditions".
Look at the second listing. See if that's not a .cfm file there that you
see. Although that site is now defunct (a victim of the .dot com die-off),
it was a CF site where every page was a .cfm page and every page was
indexed. Go to GOOGLE and type in "Appalachian Stories", and you'll see
(9th down) that even the .cfm pages that were dynamic, are indexed - those
having a "?" with a query string. While at GOOGLE, type in "Ohio River
Bears". Second down you'll see a .cgi page indexed with the query string
appended. So, while not all search engines may index URL's with query
strings, I know of none that will not index .cfm or .cgi pages.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: Bud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 3:20 PM
Subject: .cfm extension and URLs
> Hi all. I'm having an argument with a client about the cfm extension.
> He's got a guy doing his search engine optimization that is insisting
> that search engines won't follow any extension other than .htm and
> ..html. I'm telling him the search engines don't care as long as they
> don't end in .cgi or have a query string in the URL. Am I wrong? Any
> documentation you can point me to one way or the other?
>
> Thanks a bunch!
> --
>
> Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations
>
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