To create a search engine friendly PHP-Nuke site, you need a means of converting dynamic URLs to static ones. How can this be done? For example, you could convert
http://www.yourdomain.com/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=chris
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to
http://www.yourdomain.com/userinfo-chris.html
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Notice that the spider-friendly format contains no indication that there are any parameters being passed at all. Rather, it simply looks like we are trying to access the file userinfo-chris.html
on www.yourdomain.com, and this will not present any problems to the search engine spiders. We have of course to track this case down and use such a "file" accordingly, i.e split it internally into
its parts, determine the parameter-value pairs and the name of the script to execute and pass the parameters (name=Your_Account, op=edituser, username=chris) to that script (modules.php) for
execution.
We will describe GoogleTap, an ingenious solution to this problem, that combines the components we saw in the previous sections:
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Frontpage extensions will not work! |
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This does not need to upset you, since PHP-Nuke does not use Frontpage extensions. But for the sake of completeness, be warned that if you use Frontpage extensions, mod_rewrite will not work! Of
course, if your ISP has installed them, but you don't use them, you also don't need to worry.
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