Folks, i have a people search engine. users visiting my site enters one or few information about a person (first name or last name or piece of the address) in to the search form kept on the home page. so i dynamically grab the relevant person's information from our upstream data provider using their API in the form of an xml response. then i manipulate that xml response data and display the results in the search.php page in our website. example : user search for "jeff" in index.php > we query 'jeff' from our upstream provider > xml response received > manipulated the response data and displayed the results in search.php page as follows : Result for your search 'jeff': David J Jeff 24510 Punta Rassa Rd Apt 403 Fort Myers, FL 33908-2730 Now i have started the seo part of the site. but no clue where to start. i just want each result page has to be indexed by search engine. so if some one enter 'Jeff, Punta Rassa FL', my above search.php page has to appear. The form is currently submitted using post method. so the two url's involve in the process are : http://www.mysite.com/index.php http://www.mysite.com/search.php Note: no url encording is done. So can you kindly tell me the steps i need to follow. so the search engines will start crewel my result pages.
i think you have problem here. when users search on jeff they see yoursite.com/search.php right? but if they search on jack they would see the same url... you cannot index all search queries since they dont have a single page for themselfs.
yes same url for all searches. so gimatti, i want to make each search.php result url unique right? in other words : yousite.com/jeff yousite.com/mike right?