Page info from database friendly to google?

hestedama · Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Posts: 4

Hi everyone, and to you Rosalind, Great book of yours.

I'm a bit into google ranking atm, and I wonder if I make my site showing its content from a mysql database (with help from PHP) will the google bot still be able to find the text? Or does google not like php scripts and databases?

Cheers
Hestedama

Jim Hutchinson · Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:44 am Post subject:

Googlebot and all the other search engine bots will see your text even if it comes from a database. That is because they fetch/request the pages similar to the way we do and only see the "processed" data.

The difference is that the bots do not read JavaScripts, frames (except the NOFRAMES sections), iframes or flash. Even though I have not yet seen the PHP extension on the official files types list at Google, I have had no trouble submitting those pages and getting them ranked high.

Hope that helps.

Jim

hestedama · Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Posts: 4

Thanks Jim, that was exactly what I was hoping for. Using databases makes things much easier. Cheers

Jim Hutchinson · Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:57 pm Post subject:

Database make a lot of things easier. Think of where the articles in blogs are stored - databases. Yet the search engines practically trip over each other to get there and index your articles. Same with content management systems (CMS) where the entire site is driven by databases.

So code to your heart's content. Let me know if you want any help. PHP scripting and MySQL databases are my playground. Very Happy

Jim