listed sites spidered by search engines?

[saul good]

Hi all

Assuming my phplinks directory is findable on say google, will the posted links then be findable also? Forgive the dumb question but this is my first time using a sql database.

thx

[Steve Josephs]

My sites been running for a couple of months now and no, it hasn't been spidered.

[Karsten Fernkorn]

we have to kill the session id, then google will spider the sites! i think we dont need it, or what?

perhaps anyone (the programmer?) have an idea how to do this?

thanks

[Anonymous]

hy,
and another idea for spider/searchengines:
at now it tooks the number of the categorie in the explorer and the url loks like that:
http://www.web-katalog.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=4107aa135743b482ad4a0fb916b35ae6&PID=23
it looks better for the spider like that:
http://www.web-katalog.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=4107aa135743b482ad4a0fb916b35ae6&PID=Internet & Kommunikation
so what it needs is, that the script read out the name from the categorie, not the number.
if someone got an idea for a solution, please let me know :)
also for some new themes, it looks for that noone is working on that project. i will be nice if u like to show my how u design ur phplinks catalog. a mail to me:
info@spezi-hosting.de
and sorry about my stupid english, shool is a long time ago..
regards
slicks

[Torsten Eisenhuth]

hi folks,

guess it isnt a good idea to cut off the session id, cause this could make trouble to your databases or -better saying- your customers searching for whatever (two customers who have a search at the very same time need different session ids, otherwise the database would get in trouble ;(

you like your website be indicated by spiders (goolebot and others)?
heres the solution:
1. open your index.php
2. uncomment the line "session_start();"
3. copy & paste the following code into your index.php (preferably just between
"include("include/session.php");" and
$language = $gl["Language"];

here comes the code to paste:

*******************************
// added to make site readable for spiders
//session_start above uncommented
if (eregi("googlebot",getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT")) || eregi("ZyBorg",getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT")) || eregi("WebCrawler",getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT")) || eregi("ia_archiver",getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT")) || eregi("Firefly",getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT")) || eregi("FAST-WebCrawler",getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT")) || eregi("TurnitinBot",getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT")) || eregi("LinkWalker",getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT")) || eregi("lachesis",getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT"))) {

    } else {
   session_start();
   }
*******************************

you can, of course, add as many spiders you want.
guess you should have a look in your server logfiles to get to know, which spiders are interesting for you (just depending on your site content and the country youre in :)

have fun
LadyLuck

[Anonymous]

LadyLuck,

What do you mean in #2 when you say, "uncomment the line "session_start()"

Specifically, what does "uncomment" mean?

Thanks

Lee

[Torsten Eisenhuth]

sorry for that late reply ;(

just delete that line, thats all