___cliff rayman___ wrote:
> > I have an idea that may or may not be useful to you. If the user
> > comes to a random page without a valid cookie, you redirect them to
> > the front page. After that point, they have a valid cookie, and they
> > can access all the other pages. The robots would get redirected once,
> > try all the links on your front page (which would all redirect back to
> > the front page), and then give up.
>
> except - why do u want them to give up? search engine placement is very
> important to many of us, and u don't get it by mis-directing the robots.
I thought that the original poster was complaining about robots as a
nuisance. Certainly a robot cannot normally index your database
through a form-based front end - it's just that in his case everything
is accessible through links.
If he does actually want to be indexed, then my suggestion is useless,
I guess.
Jim
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