NYCPHP Meetup

[Jose Villegas]

On Sep 29, 2004, at 4:22 PM, Joseph Crawford wrote:
...
> Lately i have read a bit about the NYPHP site and something about
> search engine spidering.  I understand the basics such as basic meta
> tags but what i need to know is if there is an easy way without use
> apache's mod_rewrite to make a search engine index pages that have
> querystrings such as
>
> product.php?id=57
>
> where each id shows a dynamic page filled with information about
> different products.
>
> now one would think that when it spiders your products.php page and it
> shows links to products it would follow them and then index the
> results as if it was an html document, however i have been told that
> pages like that are not indexed.
>

This isn't true. Some search engines may not do this, but a lot do. For 
example, Google, MSN and Yahoo all show query strings in search 
results. I generally don't worry about this issue.

-Jose