[thelist] PHP and Search Engine Bots.

[Raditha Dissanayake]

Hi,

According to google they don't care what the suffix is. They even index 
pages that have query strings (eg ?param1=blah etc)
The easiest way to confirm all of this is to check your log files. 
Google and other search engines do however stop indexing if they find 
that the php (or whatever) page uses a spider detection algorithm to do 
search engine cloaking.

that's a good phrase for you to google on as well ;-)



Alexander C. Garcia wrote:

>Fellow Evolters
>
>	I'm curious. If I were to have HTML/PHP pages with the .php extension.
>Would a search bot from a search engine, ignore it altogether because it
>doesn't have a .htm or .html extension, or would it index it? I will check
>with the usual sources, google, yahoo, etc. but thought I'd get the evolter
>community's opinion/experience first.
>
>Peace be with you.
>
>Alexander Garcia
>Alexander at Garcia.Name
>
>
>  
>


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