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shoz, I somehow figured that. My question is: How is googlebot sending the request? If I punch in the %3F version my php script does not read that properly. Is that a problem? thx Phillip

Hi, looking for help on: if I go to Google's cache of my site (s)he gives me an error message. The cause might be in the fact that google looks for mysite/main.php%3Fcmd%3Dhelp instead of mysite/main.php?cmd=help can i fix that? Say with an htaccess entry? (Running apache php mysql on a shared server with godaddy) thx a lot Phillip[b][/b]

designationlocutus, great idea!!! But wouldn't the search engines be surprised to follow a link '/rfp.php?cmd=myproduct&item=25' and then find a page called /my-great-product-25?? thx Phillip

Yeah :( That's what I feared. Thx for the confirmation. It might be fairlz simple, or not. I will need to think about this (the script is huge, but there is a class that prints the html output, and there I might do something) thx however Phillip

Me again, tha author of this thread, given that I did not have any replies on this, maybe the forum I posted this in is too generic for that kind of question. Would you have any idea where to post this for a better chance of help? thx a lot Phillip

Hi folks, sorry to post this here but the discussion board around the tutorial "static html generation with php" has been quite inactive lately. So here my task: I have a php mysql script that is both slow and has some serious SEO problems (buying.php?cat=12... is not very keywordfriendly, and then google runs into some trouble that actually result in db errors being cached by google and not the content). So I want to translate all the non member specific parts (so the public parts) of the site to static from dynamic. I have read the tutorial over and over again, but not being an expert (just enough to be dangerous:-) I did not understand one major point. Here is WHAT I understand so far: The proposed script runs the php, reads the output and then basically saves it as html in a folder hierarchy. No? But (now my quesiton) HOW THE HECK do the links on the various (now html) pages look? They still link to buying.php?cat=12...?!? So no working site is created in the end just by the script. I still need to translate all the links in newly created html code from buying.php?cat=12... e.g. to buying/cat-12/... True? thx for your help Phillip