Pages on a Site

[Gary_Numan]

I have been looking at a few of my competitor's sites and did a site:www.whatever.com search to see how big their sites are in comparison to mine.

One of the sites has 33,700 pages.

How is this possible, do they have a team of 100 people working overtime to build all those pages?

It would take me years!

How is it done?

Thanks.

[kamakaze]

Gary - I think it all depends on the nature of the site. Those pages could be static content (content never changes) or they would be dynamic content (content loaded from a database).

Lets say you have a site based on song lyrics and you have one page that loads the lyrics from the database depending on what song is selected.

www.yoursite.com/lyrics.php?id=1
www.yoursite.com/lyrics.php?id=2
www.yoursite.com/lyrics.php?id=3
www.yoursite.com/lyrics.php?id=4
www.yoursite.com/lyrics.php?id=5

To google or any SE for that matter all the examples above are seen as seperate pages because each time is loading unique content.

[Gary_Numan]

Thanks for that, it is interesting.

I have a section within my site that is devoted to news items from Russia. It is a way of keeping people interested in the site who don't wish to buy Russian translation straight away.

So, if someone goes to my site and requested a news item from 21st October, it currently takes them straight through to the relevant page via a link.

Could I do something similar to what you are saying above so that every time someone selects a news item it opens a new page for them and that then becomes a new page on my site?

If so, how?

Thanks in advance.

Gary