Database-driven site question...

...for Google search optimization

[lorimcdaniel0951]

You all helped me so much with my first topic posted to this group that I want to post another, even more important one!

Dynamic content. Ugh. Our site is database-driven and we want it to remain that way ... but we also want people to find it in Google (and other) searches. We have optimized the home page to the hilt. We also have created optimized HTML "redirect" pages that show up in searches and ultimately send searchers back into our cold fusion pages.

The big problem we have yet to resolve is, people at our school don't want to have to notify me (the webmaster) whenever they add stuff to our site that they want to be a key search term. With an HTML site that's all done automatically, leaving them with less work. (They are fighting to get our site back into HTML because of the searchability issue.)

There are page change notifiers out there, but I've yet to find one that will work on a dynamically-driven site. Does anyone know of one that will? Or is there any way programming-wise (javascript, cold fusion, whatever) to know when someone has changed something on our dynamically-driven site?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Lori

[macrost]

Lori,
HI! There actually is a way to find out when the page was last modified on the server using classic ASP. I'm including the script here to see if it my be useful to you.

'BEGIN!
'create fso for last modified
Set fileSystemObj = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Note you need the physical location...
Set fileObj = fileSystemObj.GetFile("d:/html/users/websitecom/html/"& filename &".xml")
'we are checking our xml files date
check = datediff("s", fileObj.datelastmodified, Now())
response.write("<!--")
response.write "date last modified: " & fileObj.datelastmodified & vbCrlf
response.write "date difference in seconds: " & check
response.write("-->")

If you need help on this, just sticky me.
Mac

[bakedjake]

also have created optimized HTML "redirect" pages that show up in searches and ultimately send searchers back into our cold fusion pages

Consider flipping the magic ColdFusion switch that turns parameters into folders. ;-)

There are page change notifiers out there, but I've yet to find one that will work on a dynamically-driven site.

Unless I'm missing something, why not build this functionality into the administration that modifies the page? Should be trivial just to send an email once a user has changed a page.