Search Engines and PHP

wilzy1

Hi there,

I've a question related to Search Engines and PHP.

Consider the following three scenarios (Assume PHP, MySQL and Apache is used):

1) A PHP page with info displayed from a database.

2) A PHP page with a link that contains a ? or & in it.

3) Links to various PHP pages created in Javascript.

Will a search engine be happy indexing those pages?

Will the links get indexed also?

Ultimately, I am trying to keep my pages search engine friendly whilst maintaining the underlying functionality.

If you can offer me any advice i'd be greatly appreciative!

Kind Regards,

Michael

Weedpacket

Why worry about search engines? No-one ever uses the things...

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10245243&highlight=search+engine
http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10257387&highlight=search+engine
http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10254288&highlight=search+engine
http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10258995&highlight=search+engine
http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10254098&highlight=search+engine
http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10253849&highlight=search+engine
http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10251424&highlight=search+engine

Brendan_Nolan

Absolutely brilliant post weedpacket!

wilzy1

Even if your URL's resemble something like http://www.exampleurl.com/blahblah.php?827348273blah=28374823kjfksjdfafdkjshdjkfhsdkgjslkj g3495790857sjdflksjgdhsjdhg 9345709438osdojflskjf p04987504sldjflksjfsdlkhfsdkjfsdsldkjf;lskdto;aish0295028975?2837468239743 &fkjldsjflzksjf

And that sort of thing? Do they get indexed?

That URL you sent me doesnt answer your statement of "No1 ever uses them".

stolzyboy

It would probably help if you read the material in Weed's post, they are all about your exact question.

And he was simply stating that noone ever uses google or a search engine to search for problems, as you obviously didn't use the search link here to find your problem.

All Weed did was search on "search" and "engine" to find those results, pretty easy huh. 🙂