SEO Question

rubyonrails-talk
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It won't index the .rhtml files, those are just views. It will however index the results of those rhtml files based on your controller actions. For example:

Your rhtml is: app/views/blog/index.rhtml

Which typically would match to the following URL (that google will see) http://yoursite.com/blog/index

This would be in your controller: app/controllers/blog_controller.rb

Google sees the "output" of the rhtml via that url. I know it's confusing at first when you come from a non-MVC style programming environment, but it doesn't take too long to pick it up. A great book is "Agile Web Development With Rails" which explains all of this and more and is a great beginners guide. It helped me tremendously when I was first learning.

Cheers, John

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Forgive my ignorance in this arena, but if the only public interface is dispatch.[cgi|fcgi|rb] is Google (and other SE's) able to see only the generated http file output (in html format)?

So if they were to scan www.domain.com, they would be triggering the dispatch.cgi action (through rails) which generates html output, which then gets scanned by the SE ?

I always had it in my head that Google scans actual filenames, but as I write this, I realize that can't be the case, and that it is important to have the layout file setup with proper meta-tags and title names (among all the other SEO tips).

Thanks for talking me through this guys :slight_smile: No real reason to respond, unless I'm way off base, or there's extra detail that I've missed.

Thanks

Matt