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Re: cgi-bin From peter laurie on 16 June '00 replying to Re: cgi-bin posted by David A >>Hi >>Our site runs entirely from scripts that live in a cgi-bin directory. >>I understand that some spiders don't like to see 'cgi-bin' in a URL, so I've aliased this to 'bin'. Does anyone know if that would put them off? > >Spiders don't care about directory structure but they will not index arguements, '?' '&' etc. > >www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/somepage.htm OK >www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/somepage.cgi?product=1&product2=5 NO >www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/somepage.cgi I don't know. Thanks. The way the scripts work, there aren't any '?' or '&', and now I've removed 'bin' altogether. We've had visists from scooter and slurp but they look at the home page and leave without indexing anything. Is that normal?

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>>>Hi >>>Our site runs entirely from scripts that live in a cgi-bin directory. >>>I understand that some spiders don't like to see 'cgi-bin' in a URL, so I've aliased this to 'bin'. Does anyone know if that would put them off? >> >>Spiders don't care about directory structure but they will not index arguements, '?' '&' etc. >> >>www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/somepage.htm OK >>www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/somepage.cgi?product=1&product2=5 NO >>www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/somepage.cgi I don't know. > >Thanks. The way the scripts work, there aren't any '?' or '&', and now I've removed 'bin' altogether. We've had visists from scooter and slurp but they look at the home page and leave without indexing anything. Is that normal?