dynamic links

hello,
my site uses dynamic links for games provided. ex: games.php?name=this

basically, google sucks. msn isn't much better. rock on yahoo. yahoo has all my games indexed, however, msn and google do not. i was wondering if google and msn take yahoo's index at some point.

Hi,
nope, the others don't take Yahoo's index.

yahoo isn't considered reputable by many others since it is a pay-per-rank search engine.

that is why they have been losing so much money over the last few years - no one wants to see the highest ranked advertisement.

the good news is after over a decade of doing this they are changing their affilate programs soon.

look into apache-rewrite to turn those dynamic pages into seemingly static ones to search engine spiders.

i've done something like this already, except not using apache. i used PHP instead.

games.php?name=cool game becomes games.php/cool game

i've read the apache rewrite manuals and all that, and it just hasn't worked for me.

anyway, is this way just as good as having each game have its own physical file?

thanks.

I would say yes.

Don't forget though if you put each in a seperate file you can get additional keywords benifits. I have used both on my site and saw that:

ie.

http://avitar.net/articles.php?topic=sys-admin&title=best-practices

can become either:

http://avitar.net/articles/topic,sys-admin/title,best-practices/
or:
http://avitar.net/articles/topic-sys-admin-title-best-practices.php

I went with the first one since it was easier to keep track of for myself however either is liked by search engines from the 500+ sites i have optimized. It is just a personal preference.

Things started to get weird to keep track of since I eliminated all my pages and do everything in a database (which is 20 times faster then serving individual dynamic pages) but again it is just all preference.

SEO chat has a good article on optimizing with mod rewrite so you might want to take a gander if you need a refresher on the subject.

thanks. i get the benefit of additional keywords from a way i found pretty cool.

in games.php, i can have the game name set to a variable called $name, and on games.php, i call the following:

show_header("Games - $name", "$name game, $name, play $name free, play $name");

where the first argument is the page title, and it adds the second arguement to the meta tags, because its in the header. its worked pretty well, i've found it pretty useful.

i do games/Cool Game and then in games.php i have the file assume whatever is after that slash is the name of the game, because nothing else will ever follow that slash. that way, i dont have to do games/name, Cool Game

it's worked pretty well, except for GOOGLE not indexing it.

anyway, thanks for your help. i will try one more time with mod_rewrite.

thanks again.

According2me, Google indexing is much more easier than Yahoo!
U got Yahoo! consider u, congragulations But Google is most popular search engine. Check keyword-density on ur Web pages ( plus 404, -n- redirect errors ) , -n- re-submit2Google.

Making Web pages static using PHP or mod_rewrite is !much a difference, but using Apache mod_rewrite is far straight-forward, concise, -n- elegant. U should know regular expressions first ( Apache as well as PHP uses PCRE; visit pcre, perldoc, perl Web sites ).

U may also use PHP sockets plus file-system functions2create a static cache ( .html ) for ur dynamic Web pages; but it'll b better2use Zend Optimizer 4such work; c their Web site.

Lastly, u may consider4 link-building -n- may check ur robots.txt if it did wrong.

How can you say that? It takes several weeks before you will see any changes from your optimization. Have you even seen the google bot in your server logs? From my experiance they may visit 4-5 times over 1-2 months before accepting your redesign and adjusting your rank.