Quoting Mark Jaquith <mark.wordpress@txfx.net>:
Sebastian Herp wrote:
Matthew Thomas wrote:
Peak Discharge wrote:
That changes my url into the form of
http://www.unicorns.com/?s=string, which is a progress. The aim,
however is to change all search urls to
http://www.unicorns.com/search/string
...
Sorry to crash the coding party here, but could I just point out
that this is rather a bad idea?
Because an URL like this doesn't have any "?"s in it, Google (and
other search engines) won't know it's a page of search results, so
whenever someone happens to link to it, search engines will index
it *in addition to* the actual article pages. The end result will
be that search engines are cluttered with result pages from your
own search engine (indeed, I've seen sites trying to game Google
using this technique). Worse, the results will often be irrelevant
because they'll be plucking keywords from the summaries of several
distinct Weblog entries.
If you want cruft-free search result URLs, I suggest aiming for
something like <http://example.com/search?cat+pictures>. Same
number of characters, but the ? tells indexers (and geeky humans,
who should not be neglected) that the page quite probably isn't
static writing.
Good point, but I have linked a search result in one of my blog
posts and I am having visitors from Google for exactly that search.
If there is a link to a search, google (and others) are likely to
include it in their index (unless you add some special meta tags or
robots.txt). If there are is no link, how should google ever know
what to index? It's not like the googlebot sits in front of my
searchform and tries different phrases ;-)
In robots.txt:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search/
This is a gross use of links. Use static addresses (or pseudo-static) whenever
possible. Search engines will index dynamic search results pages, but the gain
in terms of ranking (e.g. PageRank) is low or non-existent. This was a
-discussed topic in alt.internet.search-engines.
Roy
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Roy S. Schestowitz
http://Schestowitz.com
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