[TECK]

This the evaluation made by fastforward, an expert related to search engine optimizations.
TECK wrote on Today 02:11 AM:
[high]Hello fastforward,
I released a similar hack to yours and I would like to have your opinion on a issue.
My script uses Apache's ForceType directive. So "archive" will be treated as index.php or archive.php type.
Now, will this affect the crawlers to browse the archive, if I point them to:
http://www.teckwizards.com/archive/
and that represents for them the link to forcetyped "archive" file?

Thanks for taking the time to read this message.[/high]

fastforward wrote on Today 03:16 PM:
[high]Hello TECK,

The ForceType directive will be completely invisible to a crawler in the same way as using mod_rewrite. There should be no problems whatsoever.
I personally would use the 'archive' version without the extension. There is no evidence that Google or any other search engine identifies a dynamic file and handles it differently, but that could change if the capabilities of using dynamic pages are abused. (this is just my paranoid preference and not based on any hard facts).

It looks very nice by the way
I think I'll use that on my site that doesn't have the the friendly urls.

Paul[/high]