[ic] new idea, feedback please

Grant interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Mon Oct 28 14:34:29 2002


I think I may have come up with a way that would work for me to keep my URLs
search engine friendly.  I do have a couple questions though, so please let
me know what you guys think.

The idea is to write a new usertag to replace the area tag.  It would check
to see if the page argument is AlwaysSecure or not and write either http://
or https:// based on that, then __SERVER_NAME__, then __CGI_URL__, then
/(pageargument).html.  That would keep id= and mv_pc= out of the generated
links and the search engine spiders would then be able to traverse all of
the links.  I would always use the new tag to generate links, and cookies
would just be required to shop at my store.  Here are my questions:

1. Will not having mv_pc= functionality cause a problem?  I realize it is
there to prevent browser page-caching.  If it's not there, will users be
viewing old versions of my pages after I've updated them?

2. Does anyone see any possible problems caused by setting up a system like
this?

Thanks!

- Grant