Search engines and php files

[pieterhielema]

Does anybody know how search engines handle php files?
Do they read the generated HTML?
Or do they read the php file (code) itself (and should I therefor leave the META TAGS in the index.php.

Thanks for your answer and Merry Christmas,

Pieter
http://www.pbholland.com

[webpsico]

Hoi,
Het lijkt me geen probleem. Als ik de site zoek op de omschrijving in de metatags in bv. Vindex.nl staat 'ie zonder problemen in de eerste zoekresultaten terwijl er geen index.html bestaat voor http://www.pbholland.com/

Niks aan de hand dus...toch?:)

[DeafNLoud]

Yes search engines can read a .php file just fine as long as you are not passing any variables within the links such as page2.php?variable=value

The ? will basically kill a spider bot from crawling to that page.

Just remember that the php code of the file is rendered on the server side and then passed as pure HTML to the client's browser or search engine.

HTH,

Michael

[pieterhielema]

Yes perfect. All the answer I needed.

Thanks,