Updatable Page

PenguinJr · #1 15-Mar-2004, 04:52

Hi guys,

I've heard that if you generate your page using a script it's not good for the search engine? But if you just use scripts to update ur page, without actually generating it on the fly its alright?

I'm wondering if anyone know what this means?

Which leads to the question, whats the best way to design a website that have the same top, side, and bottom section for every single page? So that if you make a change on one of the page it changes automatically on the others?

I want the website to be easily updated, and not cause problems for crawler based search engines.

Thank you for your help in advance.

JdS · #2 15-Mar-2004, 09:34

Quote:

I've heard that if you generate your page using a script it's not good for the search engine?

It's not the "using a script" that's not good for a search engine, it's how you write the script to display (or link to) internal links/pages that's really the problem. This entire site is ONE big collection of PHP scripts, but look at how the urls are displayed. They look like ordinary HTML pages - so, that's the trick.

There are SO many ways to 'insert' common top, side, and bottom sections to your site, it depends on what you are comfortable using, you have Server Side Includes, then FrontPage's "webbot" thingy (on a FrontPage Server Extension enabled server) plus the server-side script technology that you have enabled in your server e.g. PHP's include() and require().

If you really want to use an even simpler method, you can simply use HTML tags like <frame> and <iframe> but these do nothing for Search Engine bots.

If you need simple examples just ask...

PenguinJr · #3 15-Mar-2004, 09:49

Hmm... so even if you use 'include()' for top, side and bottom, these 3 will still be read by the search engine as it would if its hard-coded?

Whats best to use? PHP or the frontpage extension? Can you give me a simple example of the PHP include() please?

Thanks in advance.

Quote:

Originally Posted by JdS

It's not the "using a script" that's not good for a search engine, it's how you write the script to display (or link to) internal links/pages that's really the problem. This entire site is ONE big collection of PHP scripts, but look at how the urls are displayed. They look like ordinary HTML pages - so, that's the trick.

There are SO many ways to 'insert' common top, side, and bottom sections to your site, it depends on what you are comfortable using, you have Server Side Includes, then FrontPage's "webbot" thingy (on a FrontPage Server Extension enabled server) plus the server-side script technology that you have enabled in your server e.g. PHP's include() and require().

If you really want to use an even simpler method, you can simply use HTML tags like <frame> and <iframe> but these do nothing for Search Engine bots.

If you need simple examples just ask...

JdS · #4 16-Mar-2004, 08:10

The search engine bots will NOT know what you used, all they care about is your web page's HTML.

IF you have to learn one or the other, I'd suggest you skip FrontPage Server Extension enabled gizmos altogether and go with PHP (for really obvious reasons).

Here's a really simple example how you can use PHP includes to insert snippets of HTML code that rarely (or never) changes between your web pages.

top.inc

HTML Code:


<!-- This appears to the top of the PAGE -->
<p style="font-weight:bolder;">This should appear somewhere at the TOP</p>

side.inc

HTML Code:


<!-- This appears to the side (left) of the PAGE -->
<p style="font-weight:bolder;">This should appear somewhere on the LEFT</p>

index.php

PHP Code:


<html>
<head>
<title>Homepage</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php // include the TOP html
include_once( './top.inc' );
?>
<table>
  <tr>
  <td><?php // include the SIDE html
  require_once( './side.inc' );
  ?></td>
  <td style="background-color:#FFFFF5;width:85%;"><p>Main article here.</p></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

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