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Database driven queries for SERPS

         

toplisek

8:55 am on Nov 3, 2016 (gmt 0)

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I have seen that database driven applications can be used also as SERPS for Google.
How to manage this kind of SEO queries using PHP script?
Example:
search?q=car+repair

This query will be detected and found by Google even user did not filled in values but Google search engine can find this. How to manage this in the correct way?

LifeinAsia

5:37 pm on Nov 3, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Technically, you could have a section on your page (something like "Top 5 Searches") and then hard-code some links:
search?q=car+repair
search?q=Japanese+restaurant
etc.
Google should follow those links and index the resulting results.

mack

7:13 pm on Nov 3, 2016 (gmt 0)

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I suspect this is something Google would not want to index. They are there to serve results to their user. They would rather send the user to a relevant website, not a page containing links to relevant websites. There is no real purpose of a serp leading to a serp. Or maybe I picked you up wrong?

Mack.

toplisek

4:38 pm on Nov 17, 2016 (gmt 0)

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I have seen this pattern and such queries are direct linked with the SERPS inside Google.

not2easy

5:49 pm on Nov 17, 2016 (gmt 0)

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You mean results that claim to have whatever you want, like that auction site used for years? You could do a search for Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and they had a link to buy it. Pretty bad user experience, I would avoid it.

toplisek

5:45 pm on Nov 30, 2016 (gmt 0)

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It is more sophisticated. You get results inside link and it works locally, country based. If I understand it can be put search query using PHP and create sitemap that Google detects.

phparion

5:39 pm on Jan 9, 2017 (gmt 0)

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there are always some tricks you can do with Search Engines. I have noticed, when you search for some phrases, google will take you to websites that do not have those contents on them but still working / indexed URLs. There they display paid ads- dirty!

anyway, I would prefer to write a php snippet, that generates all the variants of such queries/URLs and display on a page. Google will crawl them one by one and will eventually index them. It will also be interesting to write some quality contents matching the keywords of such queries to see if google displays the resulting page contents and this query in its search results.