?will google index the rss2html generated pages ?

Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 3

I am implementing rss2html and have it working pretty good. I have come across this post in a search engine optimization forum and would like some clarification

Here's the post and reply:

Hello

"...I have a site with a number of pages, which is accessed through the index.php file, with variables pointing the user to the different pages. Will all these pages be spidered, or do I need a sperate name for each page?

Goggle treats php pages like normal pages, but will not index any pages with more than 2 variables. If you have more than that, you need to use mod-rewrite. I would search these forums for mod-rewrite. There have been some good threads on this a while ago..."

If I have this right..rrs2html uses various variables to parse the xml feeds to my html template pages.

is this the same as the question above...does Goggle NOT index pages generated by rrs2html with the php designation ?

thanks,
Tim

Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 693

Google will spider pages created by rss2html.php

The '2 variable' thing referrs to the number of variables in the URL (the things after the '?', and separated by '&'). The call to rss2html.php only uses two variables.

If you are modifying the rss2html.php file to specify the template and RSS, then you aren't using any variables (at least not the kind that would affect spidering).

Guest

Google does not see any difference between a page that ends in .htm, .html or .php

You may want to use a url masking application to remove the variables in the PHP created url but outside of that your page will have no less difficulty in getting spidered than a standard html one.

Best