[RESOLVED] data base and search engine

[sisira]

hello,

my web site uses a lot of data retrieved from the data bases. My site is done using php.

i want to know wether, when a person search using a search engine like yahoo or google, does data in the data bases too be caught by the search? or is it just the text in the pages which is being caught by the search.

do we have to do something to make the data base data be caught by the spider.

please let me know .

i know its simple
thanks
sisira

[LiamBailey]

Hi,

What database do you use? Though that really doesn't matter.

If you mean does google and yahoo crawl your database then the answer is no.

But the content that is brought out of your database and displayed on your website is crawled - Yes

PHP is a pre-processor, so everything being done by PHP is done before the requester, be it web browser or search spider gets it. Therefore a search engine reads the content on your PHP pages the same way as a web browser.

[dagon]

spiders see what the user does, so as long as there are links to all the pages, and its not behind some sort of security, you should be fine. You may want to read the google docs on this there are some useful options like a site map to increase your chance of getting all the site indexed.

[sisira]

hey both of u thanks alot.
i will read google pages.

my data base is mysql. and data only gets in to the pages and disply, only if someone visits and search for data using the given search box. So data is not in the pages al the time. only search data gets retreived.

so does the above what u realate to search data pase too?

thanks
sisira

[dagon]

google wont submit your form, so that data wont be indexed.

[NogDog]

Ultimately, Google follows links. If your search form uses the "get" method so that any search results page has a URL that can be used to repeat that search, and then someone copies that URL and uses it in a link on a page which Google spiders, then Google will find that link, follow it, and "see" the result as a page on your site which it can parse and catalog (just like any other web page).

Just like the three most important things in real estate are location, location, location; the three most important things in SEO are external links, external links, external links (with content, content, content being the next most important).