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Im embarking on a new project however stuck at the very first point of site architecture.
My plan is to create a directory with thousands of pages from 3-4 different XML feeds.
As this is going to be a global directory with a search on availability, my main page will have a search box where users can find accommodation, this will search the XML feeds for real time data. The results are then displayed to the user.
However I then put my SEO cap on, and thought, really I want my site to have loads of sub folders which will represent countries and cities, then each accommodation type will have its own page. Hence if I provide 10,000 accommodation units, I will have 10,000 pages.
My site structure would be something like:
www.domain.com
www.domain.com/France
www.domain.com/France/Paris
www.domain.com/France/Paris/accommodation1.aspx
and the same for other countries, this way I can strategically to my SEO on say the countries and cities as a whole.
What confusing me is that I don't know if this is the best way to do this, can any one please advise? Ie will my directories have static data and the user search will be dynamic pages?
How can I implement my Link strategies and SEO campaigns?
anything will be great!
Embed a variable in the url. Use url rewriting to ignore the directories an dpass the variable to your action script.
No need to pre-determine the directories and maintain the structure. They will be put in the url on the fly.
I have a search tool like at expedia that will go out to xml providers and display availability, however each hotel I have access to should also have a static page on my server in a folder structure so that My SEO will benefit from the content and linking.....the question is whats the best way to do it...
SE's will see the folder structure in your url, but you will be using a db and scripts to generate the content. The folder structure portion of your url will be ignored by your server - it is just for show.
