On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Emil Edeholt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  Do you guys how search engines like cookies? One site I'm working on now
> requires the user to select which region he/she is from on the start page.
> That value is stored in a cookie. So without cookies you can't get past the
> start page. Does this leave the search engines at the start page? Right now
> google only index the start pages on my site and I'm trying to figure out
> why.
>
>  If I can't use cookies, how would you force users to select a region but
> letting the search engine spiders in on the site somehow?

    One way to do it would be to allow Google (and/or other search
engines) to access the site by bypassing the region-selection
entirely.

<?php
if(preg_match('/Google/Uis',$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {
    // Allow Google to pass through.
}
?>

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