Posted by McKirahan on 01/13/07 18:18

"Arjen" <dont@mail.me> wrote in message news:eo7bbp$qmo$1@brutus.eur.nl...
> McKirahan schreef:
> > I am looking for feedback on an approach to using PHP.
> >
> > Below is a stripped down version of a Home page: "index.php".
> >
> > The content of the site is displayed in the middle of the page and
> > is "included" via "Page1.htm", "Page2.htm", or "Page3.htm".
> >
> > The page to be "included" is specified via the QueryString
> > which is specified in the navigational hyper links;
> > for example, "index.php?Page1".
> >
[snip]
> >
> > One advantage I see to this approach is that the "content" pages
> > are isolated from the "master" page and can be easily maintained.
> >
> > One disadvantage I see to this approach is that search engines
> > would not be able to catalog the site beyond the Home page.
>
> Why wouldn't a search engine be able to catalog ?
>
> Google can follow dynamic urls
>
> For a nicer url use mod rewrite
> /mymap/my-title.html /index.php?QS=3 [NC]
>
> or something more dynamic
> /page_(.+).php /index.php?QS=$1 [NC]
>
> > Are there other disadvantages (or other considerations) that I don't
see?
>
> Yup .. duplicate content (index.php?QS=wooooooom)

Thanks for you reply.

I presumed wrong about the ability of search engines to index the site;
thanks for correcting me.

Not sure what you mean by "duplicate content"?

Also, I'll have to study PHP some more to understand your dynamic url...

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