dynamic web site pages

[claudiasmt]

My company's site -- Thetours.com creates its web pages on the fly using php.

I am trying to determine how to best optimize the site.

I was thinking of creating one static page (for one area of the site that I believe would generate search engine traffic) but then leaving the rest of the site dynamic.

Will search engines accept this type of web site design? WIll I have to redo all pages -- making them static in order to get good search engine results?

Comments appreciated

[ihelpyou]

Welcome to the forums claudiasmt! :hi:

Inktomi and Google are doing a much better job of indexing php, asp, etc now. It can still be a problem.

One thing you could do is make up a static page which includes all of the pages to your site. Link to it from the front page or a page you know the spiders have crawled.

Also, if you have Url's with ? marks in them, try to get them removed.

[Blue]

:hi:

[usbnuts]

I read over your pages. I think your visitors need tours before they understand what they should do to play the game. Optimizing all pages may not help in your case.

I think you should create a visitor tour, and use CPC marketing model to drive traffic to the tour site.

I am not sure whether or not your site is listed on LS, Yahoo, and DMOZ, but these directories help on site ranking on Google.

[usbnuts]

Hey there,

you should focus on marketing for this page.
http://blossom.friendlysoftware.com/caddyprod/scripts/worldtours/game/main.php3?page=game

Just create a static PHP page and use include function to, well, include the entire URL. This allows you to make a page that looks 'static' to SEs.

But you will need to research on keyphrases that surfers will likely to do searches. For example, 'free golf game', 'free golf' yada yada

I strongly believe this page is essential to the success of your SEO. People like to LEARN what you offer first before buying, and you have to gain their trust. A tour, tutorial, FAQ are starters.

Hope this helps!

[ihelpyou]

Real good advice usbnuts!