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Is this the right way to make my website google-friendly?

I have created several Q about correctly mapping a website with a database so that google can index it properly. However, need more info.

My website is a classifieds website (PHP). Users can search ads on my site. Searching for 'BMW' will bring up only the titles of all 'bmw' ads and display them as a search result. (like google kindof). When user clicks on an 'ad', no matter which ad, an ID of that ad is passed along to 'show_ad.php'. In 'show_ad.php' the ID is received and the proper ad is displayed from the mysql database. Also, when displaying the ad, meta-tags are also dynamically changed (fetched from db) to fit the ad (I need this so that google finds the ad easier hopefully).

Now, would this be enough for making my site 'friendly'?

Also, I can change the URL with .htaccess I think, so instead of:

   http://www.mypage.com/show_ad.php?ID=12345

it will show:

   http://www.mypage.com/12345.htm

Also, I think I must add a link like the one above inside a static html page for each ad created, just so that google knows its there... right?

But, still, will this be enough?

Please guide me...

Solution

  • To make it more friendly, I would suggest the following:

    1. For each URL, instead of having (just) an id, try to add keywords to the URL as well. The earlier the better: /bmw/12345/show_ad.php
    2. For each page, make sure you have a good <title>. I.e. 'My page - Ads - BMW'
    3. Have a proper <h1>-tag containing the keywords you want to rank high in.