If your web site is information driven, it is more than likely that a database is used to serve up
content.Now when it comes to search engines, all your valuable content is invisible because it is stored in
database! Generally speaking search engines will not index search results on your web site. This leaves you with a database full of rich information but no way for
search engines to index it!
There is a simple way around this: store your content in a dual format. One version is kept in
database and another in static html formatted files. The static version is then submitted and indexed by
search engines. This is a programming free, 20 minute process as you will see below.
If you don't have a large content database here is what to do, visit your site and perform a search that returns
largest amount of results from you database. Store
source code of
search result page to a static html file and publish this file to your web site. Then it's a matter of submitting this page to all
search engines and Voila! Your web site content is for
world to see.
If you have a fairly large database then you're in luck! Cause I've got a method for you that will create some of
most powerful jump pages you'll ever have. This should take around an hour all up, but it's well worth it:
1) Creating
static pages: visit your web site online and perform a single search for each major content category, eg: "history books" might be one category. At each result screen save
source code to a html file. It's worthwhile taking care in
naming of
individual html files. The name could be in-line with
category names. Repeat this for all
categories.