Re: Search engines

• Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]
• Next message: Martijn Koster: "Re: Search engines"
• Previous message: Ave Wrigley: "Re: LWP modules"

Using PATH_INFO rather than QUERY_STRING might help.  I think search
engines are more likely to index (basically make your dynamic URL's
indistinguishable from other URL's):

   http://www/cgi-bin/something/somethingelse/whatever.html
   http://www/dynamic/something/somethingelse/whatever.html

than

   http://www/cgi-bin/something?a=somethingelse&b=whatever

It should be fairly simple to convert QUERY_STRING type programs to
use PATH_INFO instead (unless you are already using PATH_INFO for
other things.  Some of them might avoid "cgi-bin" completely, so you
might hide that fact as well.

- Austin
  austin@AL2.com


On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Thomas Moore wrote:

> Our site is built dynamically from Oracle which seems to limit the
> amount we show up on the search engines. Is there any way to incorporate
> a piece of code into our CGI scripts to have more pages get listed?
> Thanks,
> -TOm
> 

• Next message: Martijn Koster: "Re: Search engines"
• Previous message: Ave Wrigley: "Re: LWP modules"