Hi everyone! I have something bothering me in my mind. My website is generated dynamically using PHP, all the links are linking to my index.php but they have different id. Every id contains different page. My website goes like this: index.php contains the template and in the content section, it will include another file: id.php. I'm wondering if google can detect this and crawl the file included using php. Does any of you know?? If not, can mod_rewrite somehow fix this problem? Thanks

Yes Google has no problems indexing dynamic files eg.

somesite.com/index.php?id=4&foo=Some%20Page

but may limit the amount of pages it indexes on your site due to them.

A good way to fix this is to use mod_rewrite.

If you have links on your main page which have hard-coded links such as index.php?id=index, then Google should follow it.

Yes...I have lotsa links in my index.php which links to the ids....so google can actually follow PHP includes?

on my site, google would follow a few of my dynamic links but not all. implement the mod_rewrite that gooner recommended. its really not that difficult. this is the solution if you want no 'if's and's and but's' that google is gonna crawl your whole site.

btw... after i started using mod_rewrite, ALL my pages moved up signifigantly (and my pr went up a notch on most of the site... not that it matters).

good luck!
dems

supposidly Google can only see up to 3 variables.

Guys hi! i also have a website that the pages are created dynamically. I read a bit about mod rewrite but i find it difficult to understand.
My pages look like http://www.soccerboards.com/results_detail.php?l=1.
Is there a way without changing my php code, to make it search engine friendly? something like http://www.soccerboards.com/results_detail.php/1

Thanks in advance

the only thing you really have to worry about is sessions, google will not follow a link with variables attached if a session has been started because that session id will automatically be attached to the link.

try and make your variable names something that makes sense. For example, complete words such as chapter=1 instead chpt=1, that may also help with keywords too if those variables are hard-coded into the page.

Check out this article for more info:
http://www.stargeek.com/php-seo.php

yeah...mod_rewrite is pretty easy to use. but my site only has one variable, so i guess it's ok

My 1st post here

I am making a new site and I use Indexu.
So all links aren't SE friendly
Something like
http://www.bestcatalog.net/browse.php?cat=5892675

Today I modified my .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^category(.*).html browse.php?cat=$1
RewriteRule ^detail(.*).html detail.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^cat_more(.*)-(.*).html browse.php?cat=$1&pg_which=$2

so now I can use
http://www.bestcatalog.net/category5892675.html
http://www.bestcatalog.net/cat_more57927-2.html
http://www.bestcatalog.net/detail2116.html

But visitors see http://www.bestcatalog.net/browse.php?cat=XXX and I am not too good with php, so I can not re-write my code...

Do you think Google will index my pages? Or RewriteEngine On doesn't enough?

Thank you,
Nat

>>Do you think Google will index my pages? Or RewriteEngine On doesn't enough?

Sure!

Now I can say "sure" cause I've modified my code too
http://www.bestcatalog.net/category508673.html
http://www.bestcatalog.net/detail3151.html
http://www.bestcatalog.net/cat_more527621-2.html etc...

One "SEO guy" said me modification of .htaccess doesn't enough. Waiting for Google now

Nat