Help with ranking a php blog?

by burton247

Posted: 13 years ago 20 replies

PROGRAMMING

I've just finished writing my blog script in php but my issue is with getting google to view all my posts. The posts are stored in a database and displayed with the .php?page=blog&pageID=3 for example. The main issue is with the blog as I want google to rank all my posts as some of them will be tutorials etc but I don't know the best way to do this. Ideally I would like to do the same for all my pages but I can index these individually so that is not such an issue.

I know when I had a wordpress site the pages were technically .html and I'm assuming google can find these more easily. Correct me if I'm worng though, this is just speculation.

So how can I have it so google will index all my posts?

Thanks

#blog #php #ranking

wbdzgnr 13 years ago

Do some backlinks for your site with the keywords you want. Do it often and you'll get it indexed soon. Also place links to popular sites. Like here
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zoobie 13 years ago

It takes time to get index. But if you make some spider friendly URLs, this will make a bit easier. Also you may want to generate an XML sitemap submit to Google, this also will tell Google more on how to index your site properly.
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sammytoga 13 years ago

I was under the impression that dynamic pages are a lot more difficult to get indexed, since Google doesn't see php - only the output
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- burton247 13 years ago
  
  sammytoga - this is what I was unsure about, however, google does appear to be indexing them by following my in-links as I checked this evening and some more are starting to pop up.
  
  I need to generate a new site map, cheers for reminding me.
  
  I'll remember to link to other sites too, I forget this sometimes, thanks for your help
  
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carrot 13 years ago

Google will index dynamic urls just fine, provided they are linked to, as you have found.

I am intrigued as to why you decided to write your own blog platform rather than use an already stable one like WP or MT though.

Dont get me wrong, i write custom solutions often, but if its just for blogging it seems a bit overkill
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burton247 13 years ago

Yeah, it is working alright at the moment, having the file name or a path to the file containing the title of the post would be nice and help with ranking it though.

I decided not to go with an existing blogging platform or CMS for 2 reasons. Firstly, I want a blog as only one aspect of the site, I also want general pages and a portfolio section. I know I can do all this with existing setups but I wanted full control.

However, the biggest reason is experience. I'm currently studying computer science at universtiy so I am doing this to further my knowledge and it will be a good addition to my portfolio.

I agree with you that it is overkill but it will beneficial to me hope
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carrot 13 years ago

Ok, makes sense.
If you are using php and an apache server, SEO friendly links are quite easy to pull off with .htaccess and mod_rewrite.

Here is a good tutorial:

Pretty URLs - a guide to URL rewriting

Hope that helps.
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- burton247 13 years ago
  
  Link looks good. I'll have a proper read of it soon.
  
  Thanks a lot
  
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Istvan Horvath

13 years ago

Originally Posted by burton247

I know when I had a wordpress site the pages were technically .html and I'm assuming google can find these more easily. Correct me if I'm worng though, this is just speculation.

Yes, you are absolutely WRONG!
It is worse than "speculation" - it is spreading incorrect information, hoax, lies etc.

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burton247 13 years ago

@Istvan Horvath

I thought you could specify from within wordpress to display the articles as .html files instead of .php this may have been via an SEO plugin
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Istvan Horvath 13 years ago

Half-truth is always worse than anything else... it is easier to believe it.

1. By defult there is NO extension in WP urls - example.com/?p=111
That's for starters!

2. Using the Permalinks tool you can set up "pretty" permalinks (i.e. URLs) - example.com/post-title

Notice, it still doesn't have any .html or .php extension?

3. Some useless WP guides tell you to add .html to your nice permalinks to make them like example.com/post-title.html - but that is BS info and you should not listen to people who started to use WP last week...

Can you show me any trustworthy resource that has the proof for using the .html extension for better SEO? (I bet you can't...)
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burton247 13 years ago

Chill out. I came to the forum to ask for help because I wasn't sure on something. I clearly said I was not sure and correct me if I was wrong so need to act like you have.

And as it may be evident I do not myself use wordpress, so cannot remember exactly what the setup is, again no need to get so angry.

Can you show me any trustworthy resource that has the proof for using the .html extension for better SEO? (I bet you can't...)

Again, I said this was speculation so guess what, you're right, I can't find a source.
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- Istvan Horvath 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by burton247
  
  I clearly said I was not sure and correct me if I was wrong
  
  And that's exactly what I did... you just don't like it. :rolleyes:
  
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burton247

13 years ago

I don't have an issue with being told I'm wrong. It's just that you seemed to be accusing my of spreading lies when I said I was not sure. If I had have said this is true then ok, I'd agree with you but I didn't.

Again, I have no issue with being told I'm wrong I just don't think your attitude was right. If I ever correct people (not on this forum, mainly on the Linux ones) then I do so in a nice way...

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jminkler

13 years ago

Originally Posted by burton247

His attitude is TOTALLY called for. SO much bad information being passed around on this site, if you don't know then don't reply.

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burton247 13 years ago

Cheers for sitemap tip, I'll write up a script for that soon.
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- jminkler 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by burton247
  
  Cheers for sitemap tip, I'll write up a script for that soon.
  
  Why re-invent the wheel, never assume what you are doing is totally new to the programming world, google first.
  
  Let me google that for you
  
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  burton247 13 years ago
  
  I may use a third party to do it. But the whole point of the exercise is to gain experience, so I'll see
  
  Cheers again though
  
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  sonia2012 13 years ago
  
  Use the SEO url friendly from dynamic to static url - permalink.
  From article.php?id=##
  To article.php/##.html
  
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jminkler 13 years ago

First of all he said he's using his own PHP script to do the blog, not wordpress.

The best way for you to get google to see it is a sitemap of course and entering it into your google webmaster account.

Have PHP render the XML by going through your database and outputting the proper XML for the sitemap. This is what all the Google WP sitemap plugins do.
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