Salvador Ramirez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is a good or bad idea for an Internet robot the indexing of cgi programs (i.e. > link with a '?' character within).
I would have to be against this practice. My site, get.theinfo.org, is written using TCL scripts but has static content. The query data (the stuff after the ?) is being used to find which entry in the database to retrieve. This information is the key to the site and should be harvested by search engines. Because of this widespread practice, I have been forced to redesign my interface to no longer use the ? character. Amazon.com has done the same thing. However, I believe that this should not be done -- instead rely on the Robots Exclusion Protocol and Metatag, that's what they're for. -- Aaron Swartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| The Info Network <http://www.swartzfam.com/aaron/> | <http://theinfo.org> lambda.moo.mud.org:8888 - Aaron | breaking out of the mold
