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Originally Posted by jholcomb
Still, I disagree. I know that pagerank may have something to do with indexing. However I still see Googlebot having problems. When it goes to a page and hits it 30 to 40 times and get only halfway through the URL and stops at a "?" sign then you have to believe there is a problem.
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No question that they still have a problem. Nobody's figured it out yet. The above sounds like they're hitting a bad link or something - they should be fetching the full URL of any link they try to follow. It would be great to see an example, though, where they just can't follow a perfectly good link, so post it if you can.
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Originally Posted by jholcomb
When writing PHP in order to call certain dynamically generated pages raw PHP will force you to use additional characters. CGI is easily changed and additional characters are usually not necessary. I never said CGI had a problem with this.
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PHP, on many servers, is implemented as CGI rather than as an Apache module, but I think you're misinformed. PHP and Perl/CGI will use the "GET" method exactly the same way. They work the same way, and the language used has nothing to do with what's in the URL. What you're probably seeing are lots of really ugly implementations (like PHP-Nuke), or people using session variables and other unnecessary stuff.[/quote]
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Originally Posted by jholcomb
Rewrite (to my knowledge) is the best way to force PHP to behave like you want it to. If there is a better method then I'd love to get my hands on it.
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Rewriting does the job, and I don't know of a better way to make PHP, ASP, or Perl based dynamic sites "look right" so that they're easier for spiders to crawl.