SEO Tycoon

**scorpioserve** · 12-28-2007, 06:33 AM

I have a site that is fully designed with PHP and HTML, I have a sitemap with links to all the pages that I want crawled, the homepage gets crawled fine and so does the sitemap page itself, but it will not follow the links on the sitemap page, I have coded the links like this

Code:

<form action="/higuide_advertisments.php"
method="post"
name="advsitemap<?php echo $row_rsAdvertisers['CustID'] . $row_rsAdvertisers['loc']; ?>" target="_blank" id="advsitemap<?php echo $row_rsAdvertisers['CustID'] . $row_rsAdvertisers['loc']; ?>">
<a href="#" onclick="document.advsitemap<?php echo $row_rsAdvertisers['CustID'] . $row_rsAdvertisers['loc']; ?>.submit();"><?php echo $row_rsAdvertisers['CompanyName']; ?></a>
<input name="hgCustID" type="hidden" id="hgCustID<?php echo $row_rsAdvertisers['CustID'] . $row_rsAdvertisers['loc']; ?>" value="<?php echo $row_rsAdvertisers['CustID']; ?>" />
<input name="hgalnk" type="hidden" id="hgalnk<?php echo $row_rsAdvertisers['CustID'] . $row_rsAdvertisers['loc']; ?>" value="zero" />
<input name="hgloc" type="hidden" id="hgloc<?php echo $row_rsAdvertisers['CustID'] . $row_rsAdvertisers['loc']; ?>" value="<?php echo $row_rsAdvertisers['loc']; ?>" />
</form>

It uses javascript to execute a form with 3 hidden fields that hold the various $_POST variables that the results page needs, I know that this seems mad however when the site was first designed it used $_GET and that just took the apache server down every 10 queries or so, and although I tried many things to fix that none of them were successful, so I resorted to $_POST.

Please can somebody help me figure this out, I really do not know what else to try at this point.

**chrishirst** · 12-28-2007, 08:09 AM

Quote:

It uses javascript to execute a form with 3 hidden fields that hold the various $_POST variables that the results page needs,

Not a chance of search engines seeing that page.

1/ SE bots are NOT javascript enabled.

2/ SE bots do NOT submit forms.

**scorpioserve** · 12-28-2007, 02:14 PM

So can you give me any workaround for this problem, can search engines only see ugly url's that $_GET uses, or do I have to use $_GET and learn how to use mod rewrite in conjunction, I do not care if my url’s are 20 miles long as such and the data is not really a security concern or sensitive as such however $_GET just seems to hang my server, I do not know why, I have tried on windows 2003 with apache php and sql all taken from the precompiled binaries and on windows 2008 server, then I tried both again in later versions and then I tried it with a xampp installation and all of them are doing the same thing, the only way I have found to stop it, is by using $_POST and the only way I can get the variables accross without having a proper form per link is to hide them within this odd javascript. Please see if there is a way to try fix this problem.

**tripy** · 12-28-2007, 04:55 PM

Get and POST request have only 1 difference:
Get request pass the variables and values in the request, when Post have those infos in the body of the request.

I don't see how this could be the problem overloading your web server.
I'd say that the problem was elsewhere, and it solved itself at the same time you made this modification, or you have something else in the code that works on the get request and interfere with your requests.

Back on your subject, there is no way to have the SE crawls your pages if they are reachable with onclick and forms. Point.
You need to create links in the form

HTML Code:

<a href="myPage.php">my page</a>

if you want them to bee seen.

**dman_2007** · 01-01-2008, 03:02 AM

You can use mod_rewrite to rewrite all your ugly GET links.

**~DaRk-EyE~** · 01-02-2008, 10:46 AM

I suggest that you better use pure html for your sitemap, much easier to crawl and more SE friendly...

**banjosteve** · 01-05-2008, 03:12 PM

I would use mod-rewrite on the $_GET variables and for everything else, I'd use an xml sitemap. If go to www.google.com/webmasters/tools -- you can upload your xml sitemap directly to google and they start crawling everything within 30 min. or so.