does anybody know how to create a page as in the following web site.
when you type in web design highbury n5 - web design company 24 comes up. as number one in google.
when you type in web design islington the site comes up as number two in google. But you can’t find the web design highbury page on the web design islington page and vice versa.
is there a way of hiding pages on the main site for each specific area but they will still show up and show in google?
Hi Peter,
Trying to show or hide content specifically for the Google bot (or any other search engine crawler) is a very quick way to get your site blacklisted. I’ve seen sites that try and do this (BMW tried it on one of their promotional sites a few years ago and Google zapped it from their site never to be seen again) but it isn’t worth the effort IMHO.
The web design company 24 site has over 500 hundred pages in it with pretty much every town and city in the UK covered in the URLs. You can see them all here in their site XML map; http://www.webdesigncompany24.co.uk/sitemap.xml
If you look at the grey text on most of those pages you’ll see subtle links to other (identical) pages that cover other areas.
It looks like they may actually have made all of these pages although the technique is usually done on the server which injects the correct location and data into a generic template when the page is called. That way when you update the design the only thing you need to change is the single template file.
Regards,
Tim.
On 10 Apr 2013, at 16:15, Peter wrote:
is there a way of hiding pages on the main site for each specific area but they will still show up and show in google?
Hi Peter,
There are several ways to do this depending on how much time you want to spend getting the process set up and your level of expertise.
One solution is to essentially do a mail merge on the data. You have a list of text in a database or spreadsheet and an empty HTML page design that contains a number of tokens (or special markers). You can then run a script that will duplicate the template page, and insert the data into the template in the correct locations. What you end up with are several hundred static HTMl pages that all look pretty much alike but contain slightly different content. An application like WebMerge (4W WebMerge - Publish Your FileMaker, Access, or Other Database on the Web) can do this for you quite easily.
Another solution would be to migrate this process onto the server. If you store the data in a database and do the processing in PHP. When someone calls for a specific page the server retrieves the information and populates the template in real time.
Regards,
Tim.
On 19 Apr 2013, at 16:53, Peter wrote:
How do you get the server to produce the results as you say in your post?