Postnuke/Php-nuke and spiders

Are CMS systems spider-friendly

[niallt]

We're planning to revamp our site to beef up the content, and are contemplating deploying postnuke or phpnuke to achieve this.

I've never been returned to a nuke-driven site from a Google search, and I'm concerned that our content won't be spidered, or that our PR might be hit.

Any tips from those that have experience of these CMS packages or from those that can suggest alternatives?

[mack]

It all comes down to sessions.

If the CMS you use requires session id's then spiders will have problems indexing these sites.

The reason for this is, the CMS will treat a spider in the same way it treats a user and issue it with a session id. The session id will then make up part of the url the spider is crawling. Because of this session id it will not be possible for users to visit this url because the session will have expired.

You should try looking for a CMS that produces short URL's without session variables.

Hope this is of some help

Mack.

[bilalak]

No it is an issue with sessions only. Nuke does not use session most of the time for stories and content. It use stories Id. there are some alternatives to using sotry ID by modifiying the URLs using .htaccess and a new module.

I am using Nuke for a newspaper and the new urls are like

[domain.ext...]
While the real is :
[domain.ext...]

Luck