mod rewrite to change www.foo/index.php?pid=5 to www.foo/5

Hi,

i like to make my dynamic webpages google-capable.
I use a dynamic page style like www.foo/index.php?pid=5
I only got the page index.php with dynamicly includes files.

So Google doesn't seem to index the files i like to use apache to rwrite
this.

How can i accomplish that?

*** Wilhelm Kutting escribió/wrote (Sat, 29 Jan 2005 15:19:51 +0100):
> i like to make my dynamic webpages google-capable.
> I use a dynamic page style like www.foo/index.php?pid=5
> I only got the page index.php with dynamicly includes files.

RewriteRule ([0-9]+) /index.php?pid=$1

Not tested, may contain typos.

> So Google doesn't seem to index the files i like to use apache to rwrite
> this.

It's funny that Google does not index sites with dynamic-looking URLS and
they still appear in searches... Actually, I would have dropped Google as
my preferred search engine long ago if it applied such a weird filter and I
couldn't find several million sites. My suggestions:

1) Make sure your site is not indexed. I've heard this complaint many times
and when I searched the site it was always there. Of course, you can't
expect to be in page #1 if there're 100,000 sites with the same keywords.

2) Make sure you aren't preveting Google's access using JavaScript or Flash
as the only navigation system.

Google can't tell whether a site is dynamic or not. Server-side
technologies like PHP create regular HTML and are transparent for users.


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