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My website is now written in PHP. Initially it was HTML, then SHTML with server side includes.
Each page consists of a number of php includes:
(rough idea)
Page1.php =
<html>...
<table>...
<?php include 'sidenavigation.php'?>...
<?php include 'title.php'?>...
(MAIN CONTENT HERE)
</table></html>
What I am not sure about is how a search engine (google in particular) handles this. I'm sure that the google-bot will index the content on the main page okay.
But what about the included files?
Does the main page get indexed after the includes are included (i'm guessing so)?
Does the bot index the include files separately? This would mean links could appear in the search engine's results page that go directly to 'sidenavigation.php' (for example). I don't want this to happen of course.
If so, how do I avoid this happening?
So, main question is: how do i avoid component pages (like title.php) being indexed individually by a search engine resulting in links directly to the component page?
I'd like to understand this more, and would appreciate any advice, or just point me to a decent explanation somewhere.
Thanks in advance,
freemink.
The good news is you have nothing to worry about ;)
PHP is parsed on the server side.....basically the bottom line is...if you load up your page, as you do with your browser, this is exactly what the googlebot will see. PHP, ASP or any other scripting language, it will not matter, as the source code that PHP outputs is already done before the page is requested by bot or browser.
[edited by: brotherhood_of_LAN at 11:42 am (utc) on Oct. 17, 2002]
PHP is server-side which means that the end user never gets to see your php. Including bots.
All they see is the resultant html.
Nick
There are no stupid questions here! :)
