I believe (some) search engines balk at seeing the ? mark anywhere in the
URL. I think AltaVista may be one of those that rejects URL's with
dynamic parameters. You could try out your theory by trying to get
AltaVista to accept one of your URL's with a / appended.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Killillay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Cf-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 12:40 PM
Subject: CF and Search Engines Again.... =)
>This question pop's up from time to time. I have a new slant on it
though
>that I want to see if would work.
>
>Suppose that I have a link that reads
>
>http://www.somedomain.com/somepage.cfm?something=somevalue&something2=som
eva
>lue2
>
>Everything I have found in the Allaire forums says that I need to replace
>the ? and the & with / and then use a string replace method and etc. etc.
>
>How about just throwing a / at the very end and then striping it off.
Would
>the search engine then not treat everything that is in-between the / and
the
>/ as a dir. instead of a page? The reason that I am asking is because on
>two of my sites I kept noticing an error where people would add, or
search
>engines would add / at the end of the entire URL and it would throw an
>error, so I started striping off that last trailing / and no I don't get
any
>more errors, but can we use this to our advantage and use it with search
>engines?
>
>Any ideas, pro's, con's?
>
>Bill Killillay
>ICQ @ 8425781
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