SEO Problem?

I have to promote a web site with no pages.

[specter]

Hello,

I have to promote a web site with no pages.
It works as a search engine, so it has only the home page and serves results on other active pages generated by the search script on the keyword basis.

My question is:

How to promote such a web site?
It has no pages to optimize...

What could be an interesting strategy?

Thanks for any useful help.

Sincerely

[pageoneresults]

What could be an interesting strategy?

Develop some content that is indexible.

It works as a search engine, so it has only the home page and serves results on other active pages generated by the search script on the keyword basis.

There are an infinite number of virtual pages at your disposal.

[specter]

Well,

how to develop indexible content?
...You say I have infinite pages at my disposal...
But how to serve them to Google?
Should I extract the exact results url for each keyword I'm interested in and submit them to G?

please,put me on the right way;I SEOed only traditional html web sites unitil now, so, this is new to me and not friendly to manage...

Thanks :)

[rj87uk]

You could have say the last 10 searches and give links to static versions of your results... as an example :)

[pageoneresults]

This is new to me and not friendly to manage.

You may need to acquire some technical assistance in the process. Are you on Windows or Linux?

Depending on the platform, you'll either get into mod_rewrite or ISAPI_Rewrite and perform some rewriting routines to extract data from the database.

You'll set up a few template pages that contain the variables from the database. You'll assemble those variables on the page to create your virtual pages. This may require some changes in the way you do things now as those pages, once developed, need to be for the user. Assembling those variables to build a human readable page is a task. ;)

[specter]

well,

So is not something I do in a few of moves...

Cloaking?

[pageoneresults]

Cloaking?

Nah. You still have to serve a page. Why not make it a quality page?

So is not something I do in a few of moves...

A good rewriter and a solid foundation to start with is all you need. Sounds like you already have the foundation.

[specter]

what do you mean with "foundation"?

[pageoneresults]

It works as a search engine, so it has only the home page and serves results on other active pages generated by the search script on the keyword basis.

The foundation in this instance would be the method which is used to generate the content. You've got a search engine of sorts that serves results on other pages, correct? Why can't those pages be indexed?

I have to promote a web site with no pages.

By the way, that is an oxymoron. :)

[specter]

By the way, that is an oxymoron. :)

I know.But You understood the meaning...

Ok.The foundation is there.
And the rewriter?

[pageoneresults]

See above and below...

You may need to acquire some technical assistance in the process. Are you on Windows or Linux?

Depending on the platform, you'll either get into mod_rewrite or ISAPI_Rewrite and perform some rewriting routines to extract data from the database.

[specter]

oh,yes!

I'm on a Linux server.

[pageoneresults]

I'm on a Linux server.

I'm going to move this to the Apache Forum so you can discuss mod_rewrite and other modules available to you on Linux.

[pageoneresults]

specter, there is a mod_rewrite tutorial in the forum library here...

[webmasterworld.com...]

In fact, there are all sorts of topics that you would be interested in now that you are going to be working with dynamic content. ;)

[specter]

Well, thanks.

I'll consult them.Hope is something I can make working in days... :)

[specter]

Ok.I consulted some threads about.
The most part talk about rredirection or compression.I don't seem to view something to manage dynamic content as I would intend...
Not clear how to proceed...
Where I begin from?

[vincevincevince]

I'll go ahead and put my foot in it:

You now have pages like:
example.com/search.php?term=widget

The purpose of mod_rewrite would be to allow you to use a URL like:
example.com/widget.html

The mod_rewrite should then mean that a request to the 'widget.html' URL connects directly to the 'search.php?term=widget' page to be processed as usual.

I hope that I've not upset everyone who was hoping you would make that leap yourself.

I'm going to go one step further now and tell you not to do it. You will get traffic, but I don't think it is the right way to get traffic. Your will be getting hits based on snippets of other people's content. You can argue Fair Use until you're blue in the face, but when I serve DMCA against your webhost they won't stop to check.

[specter]

You can argue Fair Use until you're blue in the face, but when I serve DMCA against your webhost they won't stop to check.

Huh? ...

So,what do you suggest?...

[specter]

Anyway mod_rewrite would be only the means:
The first I should create that template/s with variables to extract content from the db, say a perl cgi script or something like that,right?
so, with no perl or other server side scripting knowledges, I have to renounce...

[specter]

And what if submitting directly:

'search.php?term=widget'

Does Google index such an url?

[g1smd]

They do. Anything up to three parameters is OK.

Do not use session IDs.