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[jon baer]

Does/would this work w/ robots effectively?

User-Agent: googlebot
Disallow:

User-Agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:

@ top of the page:

if (preg_match("/Google/i", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {
    header("Location: google.php");
    exit();
}

- jon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Siegel" <jsiegel1 at optonline.net>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 5:23 AM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Google/Adsense -> PHP


> I've always gone here (http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html) to deal
> with robots questions.
>
> Jeff Siegel
>
> jon baer wrote:
>
> > greetings ...
> >
> > sounds like i missed a great party :-\
> >
> > i have a quick question ... below is something i currently have on 2
> > websites which now want to integrate Google AdSense and im trying to
figure
> > it out ... first both sites use Session URL rewrite ...
> >
> > -snip-
> > Your website is using session ID's in the URL.
> > If your web pages use session ID's, you may not receive targeted ads on
> > those pages. Since this session ID - and therefore the URL - changes
every
> > time a different user views a page, the URL will not be in the index and
> > will be queued to be crawled. Once the URL is crawled, however, the
session
> > will most likely have expired. This means that pages seen by the users
are
> > never in the index. You will need to remove the session ID's in order to
> > display targeted ads.
> > -snip-
> >
> > However their crawler lists a User-Agent as:
> > Mediapartners-Google*
> >
> > So does anyone think I could create a single dynamic page/catalog
(acting
> > like static) for that user agent and then redirecting all other requests
to
> > the main site? (http://www.website.com/google.php) ...
> >
> > Offhand (I forgot the robots.txt syntax to direct all requests to that
> > location, anyone know?)
> >
> > Will research more but wanted to see how others were handling the same
> > situation ...
> >
> > - jon
> >
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> >
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