Re: [PHP] Googlebot (not another rtfm-mail)

2004-01-29 Thread Chris Hayes
At 17:58 28-1-04, you wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 11:51:06 -0500, Michael Mulligan wrote: Googlebot visits my site occasionally and follows a lot of my PHP links with long query strings... same here, google has been indexing my php site for over 3 years now :) I find the google site is NOT

RE: [PHP] Googlebot (not another rtfm-mail)

2004-01-29 Thread Williams, Olwen - SAL
] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 1:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Googlebot (not another rtfm-mail) At 17:58 28-1-04, you wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 11:51:06 -0500, Michael Mulligan wrote: Googlebot visits my site occasionally and follows a lot of my PHP links with long query

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-28 Thread Jon Bennett
from google http://www.google.com/webmasters/facts.html Fiction: Sites are not included in Google's index if they use ASP (or some other non-html file-type.) Fact: At Google, we are able to index most types of pages and files with very few exceptions. File types we are able to index include:

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-28 Thread Jon Bennett
is that it tends to avoid or downgrade URI's with parameters tacked onto the end. Does that go for internal links in your site then ??? news.php?start=10 etc ??? Could be tricky writing dyamic pages then. Thanks, Jon jon bennett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] new media creative _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-28 Thread Stuart
Jon Bennett wrote: is that it tends to avoid or downgrade URI's with parameters tacked onto the end. Does that go for internal links in your site then ??? news.php?start=10 etc ??? Could be tricky writing dyamic pages then. Some spiders will not visit URLs with query strings, some will. Those

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-28 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 08:34, Jon Bennett wrote: is that it tends to avoid or downgrade URI's with parameters tacked onto the end. Does that go for internal links in your site then ??? news.php?start=10 etc ??? Could be tricky writing dyamic pages then. mod_rewrite is your friend

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-28 Thread Michael Mulligan
Googlebot visits my site occasionally and follows a lot of my PHP links with long query strings... -Mike __ Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! __ On Jan 28, 2004, at 8:34 AM, Jon Bennett wrote: Does that

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-28 Thread Mat Harris
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 11:51:06 -0500, Michael Mulligan wrote: Googlebot visits my site occasionally and follows a lot of my PHP links with long query strings... same here, google has been indexing my php site for over 3 years now :) -- A Pope has a Water Cannon.

[PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-27 Thread Hartley, Matt
Is Googlebot (or any other bot) able to follow links that are php? e.g. a href=Contact.phpContact Us/a a href=Product.phpimg src=Images/product.jpg width=110 height=111 border=0/a Is there a way to invite bots to your site? Thanks Matt

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-27 Thread Stuart
Hartley, Matt wrote: Is Googlebot (or any other bot) able to follow links that are php? e.g. a href=Contact.phpContact Us/a a href=Product.phpimg src=Images/product.jpg width=110 height=111 border=0/a Yes. Is there a way to invite bots to your site? For most, yes. -- Stuart -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-27 Thread Raditha Dissanayake
If you read the pages on google you will know the answer. Hartley, Matt wrote: Is Googlebot (or any other bot) able to follow links that are php? e.g. a href=Contact.phpContact Us/a a href=Product.phpimg src=Images/product.jpg width=110 height=111 border=0/a Is there a way to invite bots to

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-27 Thread Frank Tudor
That's not very helpful. I am also curious about this. Anyone have a more thought provoking answer? Frank --- Raditha Dissanayake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you read the pages on google you will know the answer. Hartley, Matt wrote: Is Googlebot (or any other bot) able to follow links

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-27 Thread Ben Ramsey
Perhaps this link will help: http://www.google.com/webmasters/ Frank Tudor wrote: That's not very helpful. I am also curious about this. Anyone have a more thought provoking answer? Frank --- Raditha Dissanayake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you read the pages on google you will know the

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-27 Thread Stuart
Frank Tudor wrote: Anyone have a more thought provoking answer? Do some minimal research (Google is good for this) and you would find the answers yourself. Hartley, Matt wrote: Is Googlebot (or any other bot) able to follow links that are php? Yes. Most spiders will crawl over most types of URL.

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-27 Thread Raditha Dissanayake
As others have already pointed out to you, what better place to find information about google than google? Frank Tudor wrote: That's not very helpful. I am also curious about this. Anyone have a more thought provoking answer? Frank --- Raditha Dissanayake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you

Re: [PHP] Googlebot

2004-01-27 Thread Mike Migurski
Is Googlebot (or any other bot) able to follow links that are php? As others have already pointed out to you, what better place to find information about google than google? That, or your server logs - googlebot is great about identifying itself. RTFM's aside, a little understanding of how HTTP