Google and Database Articles

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neophyte
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Google and Database Articles

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I'm working on having the articles on our website be pulled from a database using PHP and MySQL instead of having a million html files to track. The question arises how does google index articles when they are being pulled from a database? How can those pages be indexed with Google?

A typical article would be called like this:

http://someaddress/article.php?article=someinteger

Does anyone know?

Thanks
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Post by Fredix »

afaik Google only lists the files themselves. This means in this case article.php would be listed but no articles. Therefore you have to use some Apache extensions to present article.php?num=001 as 001.htm to the viewer.
I've never done that myself but it is discussed nearly a 1000 times on every forum......

good luck
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Post by penguinboy »

Fredix is incorrect.
Google does archive dynamic pages.
SEO Chat has tons of info on SEO strategy.
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