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10 Responses to “Search Engine Optimization Tips for Blogs - Site Themes and Design”

• yunasville

  August 10th, 2005 2:53 am

  I also found that the search engine is not particularly thrilled with dynamic pages either. I am using WordPress which uses PHP and mySQL to store all blog entries and pages. My page’s URL used to have ” index.php?pagename=blah” in it and googlebot doesn’t like to index it. I had to use mod_rewrite to change every page on my site to static pages to make the page URL more crawler friendly. The result is quite significant.

• Miha

  August 10th, 2005 4:24 am

  It’s well known that search engine robots have difficulties with dynamically generated URLs. Friendly, human readable URLs will also help your users to easily remember them.

• Dominic Foster

  August 10th, 2005 5:55 am

  +1 for what Yunasville said about making sure you have static pages. I think you can set this in the Admin section too.

• Markus

  August 10th, 2005 7:14 am

  don’t forget to use the “-” instead of “_” in your *friendly urls!

  about Validation: it is not that easy if you are using any kind of CMS. Most of them (or even plugins) will spit out wrong code. The same to code from external sites like adsense.

  try to validate as good as possible

• yunasville

  August 10th, 2005 8:37 am

  Yes, the WordPress Admin page has an option for you to rewrite the URL for your blog entries. However, it won’t do the pages correctly. I had to customized the .hraccess file to add more RewriteRules to get the static pages showed up correclty.

• Gerard McGarry

  August 10th, 2005 5:11 pm

  The “dynamic pages suffer in Google” argument is rubbish! I have a site, designed in ASP which totally relies on URL parameters to work and it is usually in the top 5 pages in Google for its chosen keywords.

  Other factors are much more important: inbound links (I swear by DMOZ), semantic markup, good use of keywords and title tags. To name but a few.

• Peter Flaschner

  August 10th, 2005 11:37 pm

  I’m not an expert in the field, but I believe a google site map would do away with the dynamic pages and messy url problem.

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• Nick

  August 12th, 2005 3:13 am

  I’m with Gerard McGarry on this. The only problem I’ve had with Google is that it didn’t used to like the letters ID as the querystring value name eg mysite.aspx?pageID=1

  it might have been because it thought the ID stood for session ID.

  Does anybody know if this is still the case?

• Pro

  November 1st, 2006 6:47 am

  Here is another tip;

  Google doesn’t like JavaScript menus. Menus that are dynamically produced with a document.write()

  My official site was indexed 20 times and only 5 or 6 pages showed out of 35!

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