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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.