I understand from either the core (Leon's) or the wrox book that it is the
"?" that causes the problems. However, because the string that occurs after
the ? is unique to each different session I am not sure that it is
desirable.
Regards
Paul
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From: "Ian Bicking" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: [FreeTrade] Re: Search Engines
> >
http://www.somesite.com/store.php?SCREEN=department&sid=TSirhCwzKQX1KnSN&dep
> > artment=1
> >
> > Does anyone have any hints/tips/opinions/experience on how the search
> > engines are indexing this type of FreeTrade url. I keep running across
> > tidbits about potential pitfalls of such a url - some search engines are
> > rumored to only index this part of the above:
> > http://www.somesite.com/store.php
>
> I believe many search engines won't follow links with GET variables,
> or maybe they follow them but chop off the variables, in which case
> only the front page will be indexed.
>
> Empirically, I've found a few pages on google.com with GET variables,
> but not many. My vague memories of using search engines imply there
> are few.
>
> > I am considering converting an entire site to the FT schema but would be
> > interested to hear your opinions on this.
>
> I have heard this, but never looked into it myself. It would be easy
> to change Freetrade so that the URL looked more like:
>
> http://www.somesite.com/store.php/department?sid=asdflkjsdf&department=1
>
> And that would help a little. I believe this would just take a change
> to index.php3 to get SCREEN from the URL, and a change to the
> ScreenURL function to generate these sorts of links.
>
> But even that isn't really enough, because search engines will still
> not index the individual departments and items. You would ideally
> want something like:
>
> http://www.somesite.com/store.php/department/department1?sid=adsfxkljasfd
>
> However, it would require lots of changes to Freetrade, from what I've
> noticed from the code, since a lot of URL's seem to be constructed by
> concatenating "&var=value" onto the end of a URL. Otherwise, the only
> time when there's any real need to use GET variables is when it's from
> a submitted form (though of course it requires some extra coding).
>
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> Ian Bicking
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