Posted by Erwin Moller on 04/10/07 12:16

CAH wrote:

>> With mod_rewrite.
>>
>> With that you can setup Apache to do this:
>> 1) incoming URL:www.site.com/en/page1.php
>> towww.site.com/page1.php?lang=en
>>
>> You can set up your own rules (using regular expression).
>>
>> In that way you do not have to really create all these pages, but they
>> become virtual.
>> You only have to make page1.php pick up the $_GET["lang"] and make
>> decisions for your query based on that.
>
> Excellent advice, can Google register that one uses mod_rewrite, or is
> it none the wiser? Can search engines have something agains this
> solution?
>
> Best regards
> Cah

Hi,

Searchengine don't know about any url-rewriting taking place.
From a searchengine's point of view:
1) Ask some URL (www.example.com)
2) read all the hyperlinks
3) follow a hyperlink, eg: www.example.com/en/page1.php
4) Server responds with the HTML.
etc

The fact that the server in step 3 using URL rewriting (and actually uses
www.example.com/page1.php?lang=en) is completely unknown to the searchbot.
It is completely unknown to ANY client.
It is just something between you and your friend Apache. ;-)

Regards,
Erwin Moller

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