Hello all I program in CF, but I guess the same question could be asked for any language such as PHP or whatever... I have a reasonably large site (ie > 100 pages). I wanna reprogram it in CF so that I just have template with an include tag that grabs the content from database. Its an easy task, but my question is will search engines be able to grab that content?? I am going to try and explain what I am trying to say : Suppose you have a site that has 2 pages, x.html and y.html The database will be 2 columns : Column A will be Page Name ; Column B will be Content. A B x.html aaaaaaa y.html bbbbbbb I will program the page to make the body include the information from column B. So in essence CFINSERT COLUMN B Where COLUMN A = y.html I wanna do this so when i add content, i type it up in directly in the database and all i would have to do to add the site is to copy and paste my template and change A to equal the page file name. Does that make sense to any of you? Would Search Engines have a problem with that, or will the crawl the page and find that it is empty of content?
Yeah I get what you're saying. As long as CF is a server side language and renders the whole page server side before outputting it as HTML for the browser the search engines should see it just fine. If you need to make sure use this tool after you've built it http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php If you see the text that is in your databases then there's no reason why search engine crawlers shouldn't be able to parse your pages properly.
lol, thats true... ive used similar tools in the past, i dont know why i didnt think of that...forgive me, its Friday!!! Thanks T_Media... appreciate your soberness!!!!