Database Versus HTML and Video

[ratherbeboating]

Hi,

(I am new to SEO) I have a fairly large amount of information that I want to post on my website. This information is the basis for someone coming to visit.

The natural way to organize the information is in a relational database and allow the user to search. If I do this my site will be much smaller compared to listing it all out in HTML. Is the penalty in search engines too high to do it from a database?

Also, I have some information that I want to present that is audio/video. What should I do there?

Thanks,

[MediaSpree]

I would guess when Google requests the page from your server, it gets the HTML that is generated by your scripts. How woudl it know if its from a database or not?

[digitalv]

Allow the user to search, yes, but also create pages that read the entries from your database which will allow all of the pages to be spidered.

If you move to a "search only" interface the search engines won't be able to spider your content so they'll stop there. I can show you how I've done this on a couple of my sites, if you want to send me a PM I'll give you the URL.