Re: RE: [Xaraya_users] Re: Crawlers/SE/roBots

[email protected] (mikespub) Mon, 01 Dec 2003 20:11:51 GMT
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.xaraya.knowledge-base
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In article <mailman.1221.1070294063.4976.xaraya_knowledge-base-n5IRV0TL0hwRxVAL8JNkPw@public.gmane.org>, Xaraya Knowledge Base <[email protected]> wrote:
>...
>With some crawlers (phpDig) this creates an infinite loop (or near infinite
>loop because of exponential growth of the internal links of the site) and
>causes the crawler to crash and in essence your site never gets indexed.
>
>Solution:
>Make sure all your links are fully qualified.  IE never have just
>"index.php/articles/" but always have "http://domain.com/index.php/articles"
>
>All links generated by the Xaraya API should already do this, it's only
>user/admin entered URLs that can be troublesome.
>
Also note that search engines and crawlers should take into account the
base href directive specified in page headers - this explicitly sets the base
correctly for short URLs in Xaraya.

So if phpDig doesn't take into account the base href, a bug report should
be issued for that crawler - unless you removed the base href from your
page template of course, in which case you're the one to blame :-)

Mike.