Dynamic sites (ASP, PHP.. sites) & Flash Sites promotion

what all can be done?

[guddu]

Hi,

I am in the field of SEO and would like to explore a lot in the field of "Dynamic sites" SEO techniques and their submission. I would also like to know which search engines do not like to accept submissions for dynamic sites ( are there any?)

Going through Google news section, I found that if we avoid 'session id' and any other variable with the name 'id' google would be able to crawl these dynamic URLs and rank these pages good enough if well optimized. To what extent is this true?

Where to provide meta tags? Can these be different for each page or it has to be same for the whole site?

Also would like to ask what all can be done to promote a complete "Flash site" and no text ( no content, no text links, no <H1>, <H2> tags) and a heavy page that takes a massive page download time such as 3-4 minutes or more.

[Birdman]

Hello,

I'll take the last question.

Also would like to ask what all can be done to promote a complete "Flash site" and no text

Get Google Adwords and Overture accounts and pay for clicks. There is no way to promote a site with no text in search engines.

As far as dynamic sites are concerned, I would just try to keep it to one variable in the query string and you should be okay. I prefer to use mod_rewrite to make the urls appear static.

[guddu]

Thanks Birdman

Are Pay per click search engines worth enough. Do you think use of meta tags, alt tags and comments with lots of keywords in them be any help for such flash sites?

Can you please provide the syntax for mod_rewrite and where to add it to make the URL appear static? (But, I think this would be visible to the user only and not from the point of search engines)

[Birdman]

You're welcome, guddu. You may as well forget the all flash sites. Meta tags are ignored by most large engines any more. Yes pay-per-click can be very much worth it, if you can convert the clicks to sales.

But, I think this would be visible to the user only and not from the point of search engines

Not true, I use it on quite a few sites and the pages are indexed with the rewritten urls, not the dynamic ones. mod_rewrite [httpd.apache.org] info.

[andreasfriedrich]

>>syntax for mod_rewrite and where to add it

Read [a]n Introduction to Redirecting URLs on an Apache Server [webmasterworld.com]. Then there is the mod_rewrite [httpd.apache.org] documentation. A site search [google.de] will return lots of threads on mod_rewrite [httpd.apache.org] as well.

>>this would be visible to the user only and not from the
>>point of search engines

Why would that be the case? AFAIK there is no fundamental difference between spiders and browsers. Both are UA using HTTP (RFC2616 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 [faqs.org]) to request certain resources. See How search engines work. A primer. [webmasterworld.com] for more information.

Andreas

[guddu]

Thanks, These were quite helpful.

Birdman, I am aware of Google Adwords & Overture and have used them quite a lot. But I have used them to add to the traffic we were already getting and got a good response allover. Accordig to me, Google Adwords are much better to Overture and it has become costly (min bidding 0.10) also and targetted keywords & keyphrases might be more costly too.

Can you please list some of the pay-per-click search engines, global paid search engines & directories.

Thanks andreasfriedrich, I would just go through all these links and be in touch with you very soon.

:)