Google indexing in php script

[maheswaran]

Hi all,

I developed one application. From that application i created dynamic pages contact us , about us...(like joomla, but application is not in joomla)... These all are comes from database.In this i have one doubt, how google can indexing these pages from database or is google can able to indexing these pages.

For easy, i posted this question into bytes-> forum and its stored in database. But if am googled then i can able to see this in google search, i mean googel has indexed these pages. How this would come.....

So am very much confused in this concept. Please help any body..... :(

[Markus]

@maheswaran
If you provide a means for google to locate your dynamic pages, i.e. a site-map, then google will index them like it would static pages, yes.

[maheswaran]

Hi Markas,

thanks for the reply. Could give some brief. Because i did the aplication like below

if($page->option=="contactus")
{
then load contact us details from DB;
}
if($page->option=="aboutus")
{
then load aboutus details from DB;
}

How i can give xml sitemap .... is i need to give predefined?

[Markus]

@maheswaran
You don't *need* to use a sitemap. As long as you have navigational links that point to each page on your site, then google will find them.

[maheswaran]

Thanks markas,

Final bit confusion..... If my page is look like www.mysite.com/contact.php and www.mysite.com/aboutus.php then this will going to indexed by google. But my application have not like this my site have www.mysite.com/index.php?option="contact" and www.mysite.com/index.php?option="aboutus". According to this , i will load the content from DB. So from that you said its not a problem right....?

[Markus]

@maheswaran
That is correct - google will index them.

[dlite922]

I'm interested to know if Google "pushes" form buttons that go to different pages. I think the answer is no. Spiders only follows links <a></a> no matter what they are.

Cheers,



Dan

[maheswaran]

@dlite922

So i have two answers, one is google will index or google will not index. I would like to start the new conversation for this. Anybody knowing about google indexing (SEO) please contribute your thoughts here... :)

[Markus]

@maheswaran
No - you have one answer. If you provide links, i.e. anchor tags (<a />), your pages will be indexed. You never mentioned anything about forms.

Mark.

[teamsiems]

Markus is correct. There are two ways Google can index your content.

Links on your pages provide Google with an easy way to index content - be it plain HTML or database-driven scripted content. If you have ever seen a WordPress blog with a URL like www.example.com/?p=123 then Google will parse the content from a database and index it. (WordPress uses PHP and MySQL.)

Google Sitemaps are another means for Google to index your site. Google Sitemaps are XML files that you assemble and provide Google. They list the URL of pages that may or may not be linked on your site: you make the sitemap and tell Google what pages to index.

dlite922 has another question.
Receive pages of forms aren't usually linked and thus Google can't get to them. Google doesn't submit dummy forms just to get to hidden content.

Google also can't pass through password protected pages. Google will only index the pages that it is authorized to view.

Google also respects robots.txt files (Linux systems). Google won't go where you tell it not to.