volatilegx
msg:679528 | 3:11 am on Jul 15, 2005 (gmt 0) |
You could do it without cloaking by displaying a <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> tag on the PHP version. That wouldn't help with bandwidth costs when the pages are spidered, though.
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guisepi
msg:679529 | 3:27 pm on Jul 15, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Let me add some more information to help clarify some points:
By having the duplicate HTML pages listed in the search engines instead of the PHP & pointing our CPC URLs to the HTML pages instead of the PHP we can achieve: 1. Reduced server load(dedicated server) since the HTML pages will have NO php code to process. 2. The customers will not be browsing the duplicate PHP pages until the've added a product to their cart from an HTML product page which would would have the add-to-cart button submit to cart.php NOT cart.html ...thus the vast majority of our new customers would be able to browse through as many HTML pages as they like until they add a least 1 product to the cart. This should definitely allow for much more vistor traffic. At least that was our plan ...any better suggestions? We plan on utilizing Zend Optimizer again to help speed up things on the server during the holidays ...made a tremendous difference last year!
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nickthemiragorobot
msg:679530 | 10:39 am on Jul 27, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Why not have two directories one for static pages and one for dynamic, then refuse entry to the dynamic directory via robots.txt?
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guisepi
msg:679531 | 1:16 pm on Jul 27, 2005 (gmt 0) |
How reliable is employing a robots.txt file with regard to Google, Yahoo & MSN? 100%? We definitely don't want both pages, static & dynamic, indexed by any search engine otherwise penalties could results since the html output would be the identical for both...
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