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Seach engines and Content Managment Systems

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 6:34 pm
by AVATAr
i used to have a site in pure html with some kind of encyclopedia.

I could search for that contect using goolge because it was pure html -> you can link to that .html files.

my doubt is, if i have a CMS 100% php and the content in a Mysql DB, how can i manage to make google find the same content like when i used pure html????

for instance.. i have http://mysite.com/worldwarII.html, and now i have: http://mysite.com/article.php?id=12

any ideas...???

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 6:50 pm
by Sevengraff
I don't think you have to do anything special, google will know what to link too. I've gotten results from them that point to sites using phpnuke and it gave the correct URL.

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 8:16 pm
by McGruff
Afaik google supports php sites, and hotbot has at least limited support. Dunno about the rest - I think several SEs don't like the ? in the URL.

What about page caching? Good way to go if your content doesn't change too often.

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 4:17 am
by twigletmac
PHP is server-side, so search engines will see the generated HTML like any other user browsing the site and will spider it accordingly.

Not had any problems with Google indexing dynamic URLs, you just need to make sure you don't have too many variables in the query string.

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