In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Keeline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >--- Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On your error page, you can automatically forward the user to another >> page. You can set up whatever rules you want, within your error page, >> to calculate which page the user should be sent to. >> >> I have a site which displays properties. I want visitors to be able to >> find the properties fast, so I tell them to go to >> http://hahomes.com/348 >> and it goes to a custom error page, notices that the page you requested >> is simply a number (348), displays a "please wait whilst I find you >> property 348, and then forwards you to the page which shows you property >> number 348. Very easy for a user to use! >> >> -- >> Pete Clark > >That probably works most of the time but the search engine spiders may not like >it. We had a situation where a requested page sent a 404 and then forwarded to >the correct page and the spiders stopped as soon as they saw the 404. It >really hurt our search engine ranking. > >A series of mod_rewrite rules would be better in this instance. You could look >for a number after the domain name and use it as a GET variable for your lookup >script. > >James
I would agree, I don't think that the search engines can see the pages via this route. But there are alternative routes to the same pages, which search engines CAN see. This is an additional route, to make it very easy for visitors to find individual properties that we want them to see. -- Pete Clark Free advertising for your website, business, or organisation at: http://www.hotcosta.com/resources.php Community email addresses: Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shortcut URL to this page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
