dynamic pages

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by cosmonaut, Aug 28, 2006.

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    I have a database with 800 records - and each has a page

    showPage.php?id=25

    etc

    so we all know google doesn't rank these pages well - but it really is the best way to show my pages. Plus its already done now

    The rest of my site seems to be indexed well, but these pages never compete well against other sites, despite being better! Its an old site too, but still poorly ranked

    Does anyone have an idea of how I can get these pages rank more highly - will creating another page descriptivetitle.php - that forwards to showPage.php?id=25 help?

    Or is that not allowed?

    Thanks in advance all
     
    cosmonaut, Aug 28, 2006 IP
  2. danielbruzual

    danielbruzual Active Member

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    Use mod rewrite to change those dynamic urls into static urls:

    instead of site.com/showPage.php?id=25 you can have sitecom/page25.html, by only adding a few lines of code to your .htaccess file.
     
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    creating the subdomens may be the good idea too.
    Google like subdoments and consider it as independent sites
     
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    cosmonaut Well-Known Member

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    thanks for this, can you be a little more specific though -

    are you suggesting that I make each of my 800 database driven pages a subdomain?

    TIA
     
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  5. cosmonaut

    cosmonaut Well-Known Member

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    ok thanks - thats really interesting - I read this page after your comment
    http://www.getfoundnow.com/mod_rewrite.htm

    - so the regular expression thing isn't ideal here, because i'd be converting

    site.com/showPage.php?id=25

    to

    site.com/25

    whereas
    site.com/haddock would be far more appropriate


    So will 800 lines in my .htaccess file really slow my site down? Should I settle for the slight advantage of site.com/25, or slow my site with a huge htaccess file and go for site.com/haddock ?

    Thanks

    your input greatly appreciated!
     
    cosmonaut, Aug 29, 2006 IP