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Search engines and a database based site
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:33 pm
by Arve
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.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:47 pm
by JayBird
No HTML code?
How do you display it in the browser then?
Remember, search engines see what your browsers see (give or take)
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:36 pm
by RobertGonzalez
To reiterate, how do you propose to have an indexable site which uses no markup?
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:06 pm
by s.dot
.txt files!
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:19 am
by Arve
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.
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:39 am
by JayBird
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.
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:33 am
by RobertGonzalez
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.