[ABRAHM]

Do the bots see the PHP, or the HTML that it outputs?

What does your browser see? A bot is a browser.

For intance, if I have an article.php file which displays an article based on the var aid, will each article be indexed?

Different engines do different things and different people will tell you different things (b/c they were told by somebody else). Some say Google will support up to one query string variable (eg, ?aid=4, but not ?ai -- This message may have been cut off and the rest will only be shown to members. To become a member, click here --

[ABRAHM]

Do the bots see the PHP, or the HTML that it outputs?

What does your browser see? A bot is a browser.

For intance, if I have an article.php file which displays an article based on the var aid, will each article be indexed?

Different engines do different things and different people will tell you different things (b/c they were told by somebody else). Some say Google will support up to one query string variable (eg, ?aid=4, but not ?ai -- This message may have been cut off and the rest will only be shown to members. To become a member, click here --