advise on marketing a new php site for cheap but fast as possible

chetas rocks

[chetas]

HI! hope you lot can help!

I have this PHP e-com site that uses sessions (i've been told its NOT very search engine friendly).
have few questions!
Questions:

1. If i have a collection of html pages on the same site that arent linked together, are they just as likely to be spidered as a collection of html pages on the same site that are linked together?
im thinking of making html copies of my site pages and uploading them to the server but not sure to copy the entire site navigation struture or just make each page link back to the main store php pages instead of the copied html pages.

2. i use .co.uk domain but site is hosted on US severs. wont cause a problem will it?

3. is their anyway to make php search engine friendly? like asp for example, it can be set so that the search engines uses a asp sites search function.
i dont want to make html pages all the time for my site! takes time

4. What do u recommened i do to get included asap?
ive done url submission already ( what a con, 30$ just for one url) :( , ive done pay per click as well on espotting, overtures and google! ive done the 300 search site submission thing from ineedhits.

5. if it helps, i used to be ranked quite highly before ( had my own yahoo catergory- but they dont use that as more as before :S ) and i own several high traffic and relatively well linked sites but not related to my store. can it take advantage of this?

6.i have two similiar domains. to keep my site clean, i was thinkign of copying the html files to the other domain, wont blacklist me.

7. how does 1 know if they have been blacklisted from search engines? shalli grass him or just leave him?

8. one site on the search engine has the entire page filled with mirror sites virtually the same on google and yahoo

Thanks for any help guys!

[edited by: chetas at 12:47 pm (utc) on June 9, 2003]

[chetas]

i just read about
'parse html files for php scripts'

how would i do this? i suppose it means a code in each php page? i know its not done already because in the search engine, my site descpriton was just the text on the site and not the php stuff in the database.

[takagi]

Hi chetas, Welcome to WebmasterWorld.

i've been told its very search engine friendly

A sub page with a URL like
mydomain.co.uk/ware.php?id=45&PHPSESSID=1d3f6c83457bdff1c122fed775bfe4ce

is not really search engine friendly. That is probably the reason there are no sub pages indexed.

[chetas]

A sub page with a URL like
mydomain.co.uk/ware.php?id=45&PHPSESSID=1d3f6c83457bdff1c122fed775bfe4ce
is not really search engine friendly.

I know. how can i fix it w/o having to redesign the site.

just re read that. it was a TYPO :( sorry. i meant isnt.

anyways how can i fix it w/o having to redesign the site.

[takagi]

A search on "session id" [google.com] gave me Help: rewriterule for session id needed [webmasterworld.com] and over 200 other threads about this problem. I'm not an expert on this, so please read some of those threads.

2. i use .co.uk domain but site is hosted on US severs. wont cause a problem will it?

What kind of problems do you think of? A search on www.google.co.uk for 'pages from the UK' already displays your site when searching for the domain name.

4. What do u recommened i do to get included asap?

You are already included in Google, Inktomi, Teoma ('but with an 'under construction' title) and AltaVista. So you only miss FAST (AllTheWeb). Paying more to get sub pages included is up to you. But I'm afraid you need to solve the 'session id' problem not only for Google.

[chetas]

Thank you for your help. i tried to search this forum but used 'php'. didnt think of using session ids as search term.

The under contruction should hopefully update once the engines update my site

again thanks for your help

[takagi]

Yes the 'under construction' title will disappear in time.

5 (...) i own several high traffic and relatively well linked sites but not related to my store. can it take advantage of this?

You should be aware of 2 things:
1. heavy interlinking
One link from each is no problem, unless the others are already heavy interlinked and you link back.
2. Themed links
Supose your other sites are about widgets and your new site is about gadgets. Having several important (as for PageRank) inbound from the widget-pages, makes your new site also a widget-site for Google.

[chetas]

[qoute]1. heavy interlinking
One link from each is no problem, unless the others are already heavy interlinked and you link back.[/qoute]

Hi, theres no crosslinking at the moment. anyways i just downloaded googlebar thingy and the sites are only ranked PR4 and PR5 .

Sessions: so it means that for my site to stand any chance, i have to remove the session id thing. I wish the design company told me this earlier :(

I've around about sesson ids and am still a bit clueless.

does the whole store have to be redesigned not to use sessions or just a change in the htaccess file? or cant i use robots.txt file or htacess that makes all bots not use sessions i.e like this i suppose [webmasterworld.com]