how to rewrite query string for search engines

[bopritchard]

all of the pages on my website are built dynamically from a mysql database...therefore all of the links on my site contain query strings...the ?'s in my url's are keepingmy site from being spidered by the search engines...i need my url's written in such a way that they can be spidered and interpreted correctly by the web server...is there a php solution to this?

the only one i'm familiar with is the apache mod_rewrite module...unfortunately my host will not install it...

 

[Bastien]

what about using post method instead of the querystrings? course if the querystrings are built with links then that won;t work

could also place the meta tags outside the php code

Bastien

cat, the other other white meat

 

[danielhozac]

You know, if you are using Apache 2.0 there is a directive which lets you do what you want. It's called [tt]AcceptPathInfo[/tt] (

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#acceptpathinfo).

Although you would have to parse the URLs yourself and add them in the correct array.

//Daniel

 

[tarn]

I dont quite see your problem? Why would a search engine ignore your links as this dynamic page building is a well used method and is usually handled by most search engines.

If you ReWrite what are you going to re-write it to if its dynamically created.

If its that simple then write yourself a script that creates a flat page of links to each file, the search engine will find it and spider it ..... job done.

Good Luck
Laurie

 

[WizyWyg]

The only thing search engines wil have a problem with is & sign. use the hex code equivalent ( & ) instead in your URL building.

addresses with ?'s get indexed all the time.

Do a search on "vbulletin" in Google, you'll find many link addresses there that have ?'s in them.

 

[WizyWyg]

hmm forgot it parses hex

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