December 3rd, 2008
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Tips for Dynamic Websites
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Tips for Dynamic Websites
Are you running an online business with a dynamic website? Then you must be careful about search engine optimization of your dynamic website. Because there are many search engine spiders who have many difficulties to understand dynamic website or read dynamic URLs. As we know search engine is the best way to make your website adequate popular in all over the world. And good ranking in a search engine will make your online business successful. So your dynamic website must be indexed by search engine. Dynamic websites are normally not search engine friendly but if you have made a dynamic website by investing money and spending time then you never want to through it out. So let’s find out how and what you can do for an effective search engine optimization for your dynamic website.
Following are some tips which will help you to be successful in search engine optimization for your dynamic website:
- First of all if you’re selling one to twenty products then you should use a static website for your business. If you’re selling hundred of products then use dynamic website. It is very hard and time taking to create a lot of pages manually.
- Dynamic website are normally database driven, these website contain dynamic URLs. Dynamic URLs contains symbols like equals, question marks etc. You should use SEO friendly URLs instead of dynamic URLs. You may use URL rewriting tools or software. There are many free & paid tools, software available today.
Example:
Dynamic URL (Wrong): http://www.yourwebsite.com/index.php?cPath=24
Search Engine Friendly URL (Right): http://www. yourwebsite.com/catalog-decorations.html - You may use Perl scripts or CGI Scripts to index your site by search engine spiders. Using Perl Scripts or CGI Scripts are a great & easiest ways that help your website to be index in search engine.
Example:
Perl Sripts/CGI Scripts will change
Dynamic URL: http://www. yourwebsite.com/product.php?id=24?cpath=113
to
Search Engine Friendly URL: http://www. yourwebsite.com/decorations/carving-kits.html - Apache server comes with a URL rewrite modules that automatically change your dynamic URL to search engine friendly URL. You should contact your hosting provider to host your website on apache server and ask them to install URL rewrite module.
- ColdFusion is another option for your dynamic website, you can reconfigure ColdFusion on your server to replace “?” to “/”.
- You should organize your dynamic website products. Your products page should contain all products with static links. You can crate them categories if you have thousands of products. As you know search engine can’t use your search box to search your products. Therefore you need to categories your products
- Another good option for you is to make a static page that contains the link of all the dynamic pages with a description or title of the product or page.
The above steps will help your dynamic website to be indexed by search engine. We will post other information Try the above steps and let us know if you have any queries or questions.
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2 comments
Asif Faridi wrote:
April 16th, 2010By implementing all your suggestions any website could be make SEO friendly and after uploading get easily a good Rank.Also very easy to implement all SEO on the website to the professionals.
Prashantha Shet wrote:
April 21st, 2010I suggest another approach. I’m not a web developer, but I believe this will make the pages dynamic enough.
From the database, you pre-generate the static HTML for each of your products, using some tool. This can be a perl script or anything else. Then you only refer to these pages dynamically, but the links themselves are static. For instance if you have products like bikes, helmets and saddles, you generate bikes.html, helmets.html and saddles.html statically. These HTML can refer to other pages like company logo, footnotes etc. Thus the product pages become static, but generated dynamically, reducing the manual work involved. If your product database changes periodically, you may want to re-generate these pages.