Thursday, July 01, 2004
What is NEW Ok, simply put, a new Lyrics Website is up ! but what does that have to do with PHP DEVELOPMENT ? Well it is simple really, But we will have to wait and see if things are working fine !
The website takes the Lyrics Posts from a POSTNUKE database, checks what posts are lyrics (since the original website ( CoOoL.US ) has a bit more than lyrics), takes the title and extracts artist name, Album Name, and song name, organizes everything into easy to navigate pages etc..
Anyway that part you can see at the Lyrics and songs website, What's really new and cool and very relevant is how to optimize this dynamic content for search engines ! A few SEO methods have been used with the help of PHP, That is instead of surrendering to the fact that robots hate dynamic content, it was turned into a real advantage in the following ways...
1- Pages appear with extensions .html (with some change to the following GET gimmick) ( here ), I will explain how it was changed to display page GET parameters to be displayed as .HTML pages later (please check how it is done on the website)
2- The site is dynamic, so content relevant pages can be generated at the fly on other websites and then connect to the page on the website...
3- Static pages (real html pages) are generated and FTPed through the server to other websites (takes 10 minutes to generate the pages and FTP them) And plenty more,
i will modify this post and add more details soon Good luck and
happy PHPing everyone
The website takes the Lyrics Posts from a POSTNUKE database, checks what posts are lyrics (since the original website ( CoOoL.US ) has a bit more than lyrics), takes the title and extracts artist name, Album Name, and song name, organizes everything into easy to navigate pages etc..
Anyway that part you can see at the Lyrics and songs website, What's really new and cool and very relevant is how to optimize this dynamic content for search engines ! A few SEO methods have been used with the help of PHP, That is instead of surrendering to the fact that robots hate dynamic content, it was turned into a real advantage in the following ways...
1- Pages appear with extensions .html (with some change to the following GET gimmick) ( here ), I will explain how it was changed to display page GET parameters to be displayed as .HTML pages later (please check how it is done on the website)
2- The site is dynamic, so content relevant pages can be generated at the fly on other websites and then connect to the page on the website...
3- Static pages (real html pages) are generated and FTPed through the server to other websites (takes 10 minutes to generate the pages and FTP them) And plenty more,
i will modify this post and add more details soon Good luck and
happy PHPing everyone
