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I've been given proposals on sites with ASP or PHP. I'm not familiar with too much on the technical side. Any suggestions/comments?
Thanks,
Michele
You need to have good spiderable urls in the end.
>> You need to have good spiderable urls in the end.
Thats the important message. Where you draw the information from to populate the page is mostly irrelevant, until you hit massive numbers of pageviews/sales and databse optimisation issues become important (ie when you hit a size where you need to consider whether your databse can handle multiple concurrent read/write sessions, and rollback/failover for data integrity stuff etc).
Historically, I've used ASP solutions (not necessarily by choice), and have seen dynamic spidering of those sites, but a good PHP house using the mod_rewrite methods refered to can get your product level pages spidered too.
I wouldn't use the technology as a selection criterion, but rather the functionality, whether the proposed solution fits your business processes, and will scale etc. Don't get too hung up on price either, your website is an investment, not a cost
Specific recommendations run the risk of editing. In this case, the original question was very general (best platform...?), and I wouldn't appreciate URL drops. If you wanted to put your requirements out to tender by WW members, you could always post in the Commercial Exchange forum, or approach some firms directly, off-board.
I would be surprised if you don't get a couple of Stickymails following this thread
>> Which is most search engine friendly?
I would say this : Solutions rank, not languages
Fine. I would suggest leaving the CFM site alone. You have made an investment, and it should be allowed to stand. Instead, you might consider creating a series of smaller sites to trap niche-specific traffic and pass it to your main CFM site. If the databse for the CFM site is open, you should be able to use that as the datasource to populate products/prices etc
Once sales are up, getting an amount of work done, for instance to strip the session IDs from the ColdFusion URL strings will help you get the main site indexed.
Not necessarily .. there are some changes happening at Google which may continue for a few weeks before it settles down ..
Not in my opinion. I would imagine that Google have problems with the "id=#####" session id paramter/value pair in your CFM URLs. Such URLs are known to cause problems in spidering, so are treated as a "red flag" by G. Fixing this will take time, and expense, because you'll need a good ColdFusion developer.
Therefore, as a purely business decision, I would recommend that you create one or more purely HTML and ASP/PHP sites to actually start trapping traffic, and directing that traffic to your sales site. Once you've got some income, you can think about making the investment needed to fix your site(s) up
