my question is about optimizing a website which uses blogs. conventionally anyone who wants to create a blog will choose blogger.com for example follow the 3 steps and this generates a url and this url can be used for users to post and reply to comments and a blog is created. the website that i am working for seo purpose is a software train ing institute and they are using a blog that they have created on their own using php and they want to use this blog as part of their website example at the top right corner of the website and remaining being their website content, images etc... the features of this blog are 1. students of this institute will be given username and password and they login and they can read and reply to posts on the blog and other users who do not have username and password can only read and post a message in the blog and cannot reply to an blogs in the website. 2. as this blog is being created using php whenever a user is using the blog whether it is a registered user or not, the url throughtout this process will look somewhat like the following http://www.sitename.com/index.php?name1=value1&name2=value2 http://www.sitename.com/index.php?name2=abcdefghij12345 for the other pages in the website the url would be a simple such as http://www.sitename.com/aboutus.php http://www.sitename.com/contactus.php etc... my question is 1. based on the above scenario with the blog for this website how do i go about optimizing this kind of blog for this website 2. since php is being used each time a user uses this blog data is being retrieved form MySql database dynamically and stored, so what ever the user types be it a post or reply to a post, how can this be optimized from a seo perspective also is it really a compulsion to have robots.txt even if i do not have any pages that i do not want search engines to index and even i have to store a robots.txt file in the root directory for seo purpose even though i do not want to restrict the search engines from reading a file or folder, in this case what should be the content of this robots.txt file. any help will be greatly appreciated. thanks.
How it is possible, either the blog or website content will be incomplete on the screen or it is worst designing IMHO. Only one and simple solution use URL rewriting tool for apache server only. If you don't have pages that you don't need to restrict from SEs, than why need a robots.txt file?
Submit your blog everywhere in the directories. Redirect the blog links and make it search engine friendly. There is no need of robots.txt if you want to allow all search engine to crawl your website. But still if you want to create it than here is the tag for allowing all the robots User-Agent: * Allow: / Thanks
Are you asking which blogging software to use? If you have a site that requires user updatable areas that is SEO optimized then wordpress has many templates that are already optimized for you. Upload and install wordpress to your host and install it - then you can add links to the blog from the rest of your site...