Combining database with SEO

Database gurus vs. SEO Pros

[Pacific]

Looking around it seems to me that a database person can get a great site up and running, full of products or information, but the Search Engine Optimisation is lacking, i.e. often the TITLES and DESCRIPTIONS are the same on every page.

I am going to set up a new website that has the following requirements:

1. Owner of store can make updates to products.
2. The 'HEAD' TITLE and DESCRIPTION are automatically generated to reflect the information that is on each page.
3. The pages generated are SE friendly, that is, without too much "?" "=" etc. in the file name, or the file names are HTML.
4. I (the Webguy) don't know PHP language and don't have the time to learn right now
5. Possible use of payment system in the future (PayPal probably)

I have looked at osCommerce, PHP Nuke, some CMS systems (Mambo, WebGUI) but it appears that there is some modification needed (PHP), which outta my realm. I have available MySQL.

I guess I am looking for an "all-in-one" website product that can offer 100 products with each one showing an optimised page for the search engines. Is that too much to ask? Are we there yet?

Your thoughts and suggestions would be appreciated - thanks tons!

Alan

[pleeker]

Alan - I don't know anything about the off-the-shelf products, but I do believe that any developer or development shop worth its salt should be able to do exactly what you want done quite easily. Optimizing dynamic content / shopping pages / etc. is not the challenge it was a few years ago.

If you're planning instead to build it yourself, why not spend a little time learning PHP so you can make sure you get it right in your own eyes?