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. } ?> -- </Daniel P. Brown> Ask me about: Dedicated servers starting @ $59.99/mo., VPS starting @ $19.99/mo., and shared hosting starting @ $2.50/mo. Unmanaged, managed, and fully-managed! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php