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I've been reading some of the recommondations from this forum on "good web sites" related to search engine promotion and ranking. for example: Brett's guide to a successful site, and some other things I have found (but lost the pages because I carelessly close windows).
One thing that sticks out in the the articles I have read, is that good web sites should have alot of pages. Not just alot of daily updated content which makes sense, but lots of pages. Lots of links, going back to lots of pages.
Well, I'm more of a programmer than a web designer. To me, HTML comes after the database design, after the business logic, and after the mechanics of the website are well on their way. If I where to build a content site, sure I can have alot of content, but I will have few pages. Idealy, I would have one page. I'd keep content in a database, where content should be. Searchable, indexable, sortable, managable; keeping with the characteristics of data.
So this doesn't make alot of pages or links for a spider to follow. Is this an issue for concern, or do the spiders deal with this just like static pages, and some of these articles are outdated? Or has the search engines not caught up with standard programming concepts yet?
You have information on your database and you make it shown on a page with a PHP (or whatever) code.
These automatically generated pages will be crawled as an HTML file. But remember to make this happen. I suggest you to use inbound links on these pages.
Although, I'm not quite sure I understand the full definition of an inbound link, and going back to my minimal pages setup, can links like:
http://www.example.com/index.php?nav=hist&op=read§=4&key=p012gh3
...be crawled just like anything else? Most of my web sites never have anything more than an index file, with lots of different options attached to that.
[edited by: pageoneresults at 1:49 pm (utc) on June 30, 2005]
[edit reason] Examplified URI Reference [/edit]
You state that you run all your data for a website off a database and you are concerned that it only produces a single page and will this effect your postition.
In your next post you ask if a lot of variables on a querystring will affect your position.
The answer to both these questions is YES.
The solution is rewriting.
dregs33
ps. Don't ask me about rewriting, just google it for your platform. :)
As in mod_rewrite. Thanks dregs33! This is going to be fun and interesting to learn!
:-)
