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Do you guys think its ok to give these names to these pages or would it be considered spam by the SE since there would be the "same widget name" mentioned twice in the same URL in 26 pages--almost 52 times. However, the content in these page would be completely different.
What is the best way/practice to give names to these pages. Before asking this question, I did a lot of reading and search to find answers to my questions and to find out about the standard SEO practices. Page naming is one of them and I want to make sure I am not making a mistake. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Sorry about the bad English but this is the best I could do and couldnt come up with better words than this
../menucontent/menu_correlations/correlations.htm
The other pages within the menu_correlations folder are along this line:
correlations_ak.htm
correlations_al.htm
correlations_ar.htm
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There are about 50 of them all beginning with the same word.
domain.com/ps2_red_widget_title.htm
domain.com/ps2_blue_widget_title.htm
keeping your pages at the root of the site will improve the PR, and using ALL the relevant words in the url is also useful.
try to have one page for every game, with the title properly named for that game
To have a seperate page for each widget or game is almost impossible for me at this time since there are over 5000 widgets/games in the website. The best I can do at this time is to have the widgets mentioned in the content of the website and try to maximize on the category/titles/descriptions. What do you think about this strategy?
Do you think it will cost me a lot to get this scripting done or its not that much work. I have a friend who is very much into php etc. If its not that much work, he would do it for me for sure but if its alot of work, then I would rather wait and try to either learn it myself or get it done later---when I have the $$. Is it easy or difficult and time consuming
[edited by: johnafrid at 2:04 pm (utc) on July 26, 2003]
since there are over 5000 widgets/games in the website
i really really advise you to look into server-side scripting. PHP is a great bet.
if it were me, I'd store all my product info in the database, and the pages for each individual game would be served via a 404 page.
if that makes no sense to you, then look into what php & mySQL can do for you.
basically it would allow you to generate all those 5000 pages virtually and on-the-fly - never actually exisiting physically on the server.
About the 404, I always thought about those as the worst thing I could get online from any website. Do you think I could get some fance 404s that are not that much annoying as I think they are
Vincevincevince, I would love to know what you are talking about. It would be great if you could also refer me to some URLs
Thanks for the help
[edited by: johnafrid at 2:24 pm (utc) on July 26, 2003]
keeping your pages at the root of the site will improve the PR, ..Well, vince3, I happen to disagree with you. PR is not related to file structure unless it is the guessed PR for a new page.
[edited by: takagi at 2:22 pm (utc) on July 26, 2003]
nice to meet you here
It does sound like a good idea to eventually move over to some sort of database driven site with the number of products you have. If you went with a PHP/MySQL solution like vincevincevince mentions then it would probably be just as easy to put everything in the root.
Another thing you might want to look into is 301 redirects. You'll want to maintain any rankings you currently have with the SEs, and to do that you'll have to set a Permanent Redirect from the old pages to the new ones.
There is a ton of info about these topics here. You should be able to find the info you need via the site search.
