Tom,
I can't be sure, since I'm not too knowledgeable with this, but I would
think this would work just fine. The search engine should be seeing the URL
just as the user would. Further, a site I know does a similar trick (though
I'm not sure they use mod_rewrite) where /users/username is converted into
something.pl?user=username and they get indexed, so I can't think of any
reason you're case would be any different.
- Steve
"Tom Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> hi all,
>
> On one of my sites we make extensive use of variable passed through the
> url, particullarly for browsing the main content of the site which is
> organised into main and sub categories, eg
> browse.php?maincat=Weather&subcat=sunny kind of thing.
>
> I understand from colleagues who know much on these things that public
> search engines bots (eg google) stop parsing thru that part of the site
> when they reach a '?' (I could well be wrong on this).
>
> a way around this that I have heard is installing the mod_rewrite module
> in apache and mapping browse/weather/sunny to
> browse.php?maincat=weather&subcat=sunny.
>
> Would this in fact even fix the problem? Its a hard thing to test!
>
> Does anyone have any experience using this? And what is the advice from
> people on how best to get google&co to spider your site and find your
> content effectively?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Tom
>
>
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