Mod Rewrite and Googlebot

[jetboy_70]

Hypothetical scenario:

I have a page which Googlebot is spidering. On that page is a link to shorturl.html. Using Apache's Mod Rewrite module I redirect Googlebot (and other bots and browsers) to longurl.html. Which of the two URLs will be listed is Google's SERPS?

Also (completely off topic, but while I'm here :) ) has anyone attempted to enable a .htaccess file for PHP parsing. I've currently got PHP commands in an external CSS file, and the latest brainwave is to do the same with .htaccess.

[omegadm]

Should just be longurl.html unless Google and others can get to shorturl.html via another root.

[jetboy_70]

And if I had an incoming link to shorturl.html (or any other page name that mapped to longurl.html) would this count as an incoming link to longurl.html for pagerank purposes? Doubtful?

The directory and page names on my music review site currently contain the names of artists and album titles for SEO purposes: album-review/artist-name-title-of-album.html. The length of the URLs is starting to bloat the page sizes, and they're sometimes inconvenient for emailing (just to damn long).

I'm looking to engineer a scenario where the long URLs are present while a bot or user is on the site, but only short URLs are used in the actual code, incoming links or emails. Possible, or over-optimistic?

[omegadm]

hmmmmm - interesting senario...

I would guess (and it is only a guess) that it would count as an incoming link to short.html for page rank purpose, but with content spidered from long.html.

HTH.