| Cloaking and MySQL
Is it possible to use both? |
Quazar
msg:678912 | 11:56 pm on Mar 27, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Hey everyone! Wondered if someone might have a solution to a problem I am facing. I would like to build a website utilizing MySQL for the product pages. I also would like to cloak the site. I currently have not found a cloaking script that will do that. Is this possible?
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volatilegx
msg:678913 | 12:03 am on Mar 28, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Hi Quazar and welcome to WMW :) Sure it's possible to do both. You can show optimized text to the bots and forward the humans to your MySQL generated pages. With a lot of cloaking programs, you can grab the human versions using a standard URL, which means you can do the URL encoding if necessary, by which I mean the information after the "?" mark in the URL. I don't want to mention any specific product names here (doing so would break forum rules, I believe), but if you stickymail me I can give you some ideas.
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Friday
msg:678914 | 2:18 pm on Apr 4, 2002 (gmt 0) |
What I do in situations like this is to capture the product page(s) as html and call a php function with known SE IPs in an array. Show the spiders the html product page(s) while visitors see your product index page(s). As double protection, I call the function from the cloaked page with a "!". That is: If this is NOT a spider, don't let them see this cloaked page but send them to the actual product index. The product index page says the opposite: If this is a spider send them to the "cloaked" html page so they can see what we have to offer.
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