1) If I write a whole site in php and leave each page as .php will google etc epiders traverse it?
2) In a page will google actually look at the code within <?php ?>, I think it will as the spiders will crawl it and the server should just present the html code displayed within <?php ?>, is that right?
3) Say I have a page that is passed a code and then displays details of a video (title etc) held in the database, how do I get google to find out about all the new pages entered? I'm assuming it would be better to create a php script thjat creates a new page for each video linked by an A-Z and then get the details to be filled in by the database, is this right??
Thanks for any comments on the above as I have only been using php\mysql for 6 months.
2) Google wont be able to see what is in between the <?php ?> tags. This is code which runs on your server in order to generate your html - it is this resultant html that google sees.
3) Create a separate page for each video and as long as you have links to each separate page, Google will find them. You could create separate pages for all the videos starting A, B etc. or using categories/genres, whatever you prefer or is more suitable.
yeah you could display the full list alphabetically (ORDER BY ...), but if you have lots of records, the page could get very big. It would be best to split it up into different pages (e.g. by genre, or say a page for As, one for Bs etc.). This way you would have fewer links on each page and it would also make it easier for your visitors to find what they're looking for (no one would want to load a full alphabetic list of say 000s of video titles, when the one they want is Zulu!).
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