Re: Cart passing in URL..
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texte = Just off the top of my head... bots (particularly Googlebot) can detect and do frown upon 'swapping' stuff in general because it seems spammy. Their logic (as I understand it) is that you must have something to hide if you cannot/will not show the same content/path or whatever to a bot, as you would a human. The bots aren't indexing for other bots, they're indexing for humans... I am new to this thread, so forgive my ignorance if this has already been hashed out, but have you looked into custom error-catching via webdna's errormessages.db? I have this working on http://www.searchboise.com where you'll notice that I have url's like: http://www.searchboise.com/listing-8510745768532775235.html where 'listing-8510745768532775235.html' doesn't exist at all and when the 404 error is triggered, some code in errormessages.db checks to see if a page called error.html exists (it does), and in errormessages.db I [include] whatever template I need (in this case it's listing.html, but you never see that) and I pass the 8510745768532775235 var to the page after stripping it out of [thisurl] via [getchars]. Sounds complex, but it works like a charm once you 'get it'. I have to give credit to Alain for showing me this, and I did promise not to divulge the magic without his permission, but if he's cool with it and you're interested, I'll post code. -Dan On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 17:59:29 +0100 Alan White
wrote: >Okay folks, how does this logic sound? > >Can I set up something so that will allow me to swap the cart parameter out >to a static value for bots but still show it for humans? > >i.e. Swap out the content to read as this by bots:- > >www.hanon-shop.com/site/blah/blah/blah/ > >or this by humans? > >www.hanon-shop.com/102481424242790/blah/blah/blah > >I don't know if this is possible or not... > >Feedback welcome.... > >Alan > >P.S. Sorry for thinking out loud, as per usual I am jumping hurdles to >achieve my goals ;-) > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------- >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to >Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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Just off the top of my head... bots (particularly Googlebot) can detect and do frown upon 'swapping' stuff in general because it seems spammy. Their logic (as I understand it) is that you must have something to hide if you cannot/will not show the same content/path or whatever to a bot, as you would a human. The bots aren't indexing for other bots, they're indexing for humans... I am new to this thread, so forgive my ignorance if this has already been hashed out, but have you looked into custom error-catching via webdna's errormessages.db? I have this working on http://www.searchboise.com where you'll notice that I have url's like: http://www.searchboise.com/listing-8510745768532775235.html where 'listing-8510745768532775235.html' doesn't exist at all and when the 404 error is triggered, some code in errormessages.db checks to see if a page called error.html exists (it does), and in errormessages.db I [include] whatever template I need (in this case it's listing.html, but you never see that) and I pass the 8510745768532775235 var to the page after stripping it out of [thisurl] via [getchars]. Sounds complex, but it works like a charm once you 'get it'. I have to give credit to Alain for showing me this, and I did promise not to divulge the magic without his permission, but if he's cool with it and you're interested, I'll post code. -Dan On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 17:59:29 +0100 Alan White wrote: >Okay folks, how does this logic sound? > >Can I set up something so that will allow me to swap the cart parameter out >to a static value for bots but still show it for humans? > >i.e. Swap out the content to read as this by bots:- > >www.hanon-shop.com/site/blah/blah/blah/ > >or this by humans? > >www.hanon-shop.com/102481424242790/blah/blah/blah > >I don't know if this is possible or not... > >Feedback welcome.... > >Alan > >P.S. Sorry for thinking out loud, as per usual I am jumping hurdles to >achieve my goals ;-) > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------- >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to >Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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