Search engines and a database based site

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Arve
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Search engines and a database based site

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How can I get a site that has practically no HTML code to be registered and optimized in search engines? I am planning to build a PHP/MySql based site, where the pages will be created on the fly by PHP scripts.
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No HTML code?

How do you display it in the browser then?

Remember, search engines see what your browsers see (give or take)
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To reiterate, how do you propose to have an indexable site which uses no markup?
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.txt files!
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scottayy wrote:.txt files!
How would I use .txt files to achieve this :?:

What I'm thinking of, is to have blocks of HTML code in database tables and have php scripts retrieve them and put them together, along with data from a database.
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Arve wrote:
scottayy wrote: What I'm thinking of, is to have blocks of HTML code in database tables and have php scripts retrieve them and put them together, along with data from a database.
So you are using HTML.

The HTML will be served to the search engine, just as it is served to the browser. No difference.
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Remember that PHP is a server side processing language/engine. That means that everything PHP does happens before the markup hits the browser (for the most part). So a PHP site looks like an ASP site looks like a ColdFusion site looks like a static HTML site when it comes to the browser and the search bots.
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