Re: Submitting my PHP/MYSQL driven Web Site to search engines.

Quoting Paul O' Connor who wrote on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 03:12:40PM -0000: > I have a dynamic website driven by PHP/MySql. The site is complete and ready > to submit to the search engines. However, as the site is dynamic and the > links are generated from the database, the web crawlers won't be able to > 'crawl' my site beyond a couple of static pages. > > Any tips on how to get around this problem? What I did for http://www.virtualbookcase.com/ was to take the advice from http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim19990117.php3 .. the idea is to use URL's which don't look like dynamic data to a search engine (and make sure they don't act like it either). The relevant config bit in apache is: <Location /book> ForceType application/x-httpd-php3 </Location> /book (without! .php3) is a php3 script containing: $url_array=explode("/",$REQUEST_URI); $url_todo=$url_array[2]; if ($url_todo==""){ urlerror(); } elseif ($url_todo=="detail"){ $url_bookid=$url_array[3]; if ($url_bookid){ include("include/detail.inc"); exit; } else { urlerror(); } (code snippets, more code is there which does the same for other sub url's). The script include/detail.inc uses $url_bookid for further processing. Which means http://www.virtualbookcase.com/book/detail/1 will do a query for the book with id '1'. All url's look very 'static' which means search engines do index the complete site and give me a good ranking on titles of books and names of authors. All this does mean it's something you have to design into the site from the very start. There is also a followup article in http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20000526.php3 Koos -- Koos van den Hout, PGP keyid RSA/1024 0xCA845CB5 via keyservers koos@kzdoos.xs4all.nl or DSS/1024 0xF0D7C263 -?) Fax +31-30-2817051 Visit my site about books with reviews /\\ http://idefix.net/~koos/ http://www.virtualbookcase.com/ _\_V