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Overgrow · #6 05-21-2001, 03:56 PM

Even if you do what W.Luke is doing, the spider STILL needs a way to find your old posts. Changing the query string is great for your current posts, but what if you have archives going back years? You still have to let the spider find them somehow, unless you can teach them to use your search engine?

>>The search engines will NOT spider or index strings with a ? in them.

Sorry, but this is not true. Google has been able to go through ? strings for quite a while, I have many ? pages indexed by Google. And since they also serve Yahoo, it makes them arguably the most important spider.

I wrote spiderFriend because Google needs a way to find the old posts, not just crawl the current ones... and the spiderFriend pages have much better keyword density and prominence than something from showthread.

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