PHP variable passing

why are my pages not being spidered

[james gulliver]

story through a web browser interface. The input form contains fields such as title, description, keywords, 10 alt tag spaces and the article itself. Once the client has added a story i can go into the interface and optimise for that particular story ensuring the right keywords have been used and the title and headline best describe what the story is about.

All of these stories are list in the news index with the headline being the link to the story. When the link is clicked it passes the unique variable for the story and opens the view template. All the fields are propogated with the information including alt tags and page title.

heres the snag

the search engines are not spidering these pages.

Why?

here are a few questions you might ask:

how deep are the pages?

Ans: they are on the same level as the product info pages.

Are the pages valid HTML?

Ans: yes i have checked

What are the pages?

Ans: they are PHP pages

How are you parsing the variable?

Like this ../news/view.php?id=37

[synkronus]

File types we are able to index include: pdf, asp, jsp, hdml, shtml, xml, cfm, doc, xls, ppt, rtf, wks, lwp, wri.

[google.com...]

just a thought. it doesn't specifically say that PHP pages will not be indexed but it doesn't say that they are either.

btw, i signed up just so i could post this! lol. hello all.

[andreasfriedrich]

Usually Google does index resources which have a .php extension in their URI.

Susanne [webmasterworld.com] wrote at 03:38 on Jan. 11, 2003 in message #1 [webmasterworld.com]

How come pages looking like this are indexed in Google:

www.mysite.com/EN_MagazineArchiveLetterFromTheEditor.aspx?issue=august2002

but pages like this aren't:

www.mysite.com/EN_MagazineArchiveArticle.aspx?id=divingsafari

And there is yet another thread that might be interesting to read:

Google not listing dynamic pages with long strings? [webmasterworld.com]

HTH Andreas

[andreasfriedrich]

synkronus [webmasterworld.com] wrote at 02:23 on Feb. 04, 2003 in message #2 [webmasterworld.com]

btw, i signed up just so i could post this! lol. hello all.

Welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com] synkronus.

Be sure to read Marcia`s WebmasterWorld Welcome and Guide to the Basics [webmasterworld.com] post.

Andreas