mod_deflate and SEO

Are there any issues to be aware of?

[jtoddv]

One of my clients decided that he wanted to switch to using mod_deflate to save some bandwidth.

My question is are there any issues I need to be concerned about because of this implementation as far as getting the site indexed or loss of pages?

How do spiders handle this compression?

Thanks,
J

[jdMorgan]

Compression exists as part of the transmission process, and has little to do with SEO except that the pages can be transmitted faster.

A server using compression must examine the client's "HTTP_Accept_Encoding" request header, and return a content-type acceptable to the client. But whether the response to a given request is compressed or not, it is still the same 'page' that's being sent. So SEO impact is minimal.

Googlebot will happily accept compressed content, but I'm not current on the others.

Jim

[jtoddv]

Thank you JD, exactly what I needed to know.