Not sure if this has been covered in this discussion yet, but you can have
coldfusion parse .html files as coldfusion templates. This would eliminate
your problem? no?
Also, I would think that search engines are getting smarter and smarter, so
they're probably crawling new extensions now, may want to check out
www.searchenginewatch.com for that-they may cover that, or just search at
google.com.
Otherwise, I'd just take your most "crawlable" files (those with the most
content and that which defines your site), run the .cfm script that
generates that content and copying the resulting html from your browser into
a file with a .html extension. Do this with about 5 html files and you
should be fine. You'll get into a lot of tricky stuff if you're expecting
more than one or two listings with each search engine, so just 5 html pages
will be fine to be successfully crawled. Also, search on google.com for the
specification for a robots.txt file that you can put in your webroot. It
lists direction for spiders on how to crawl your site. Not sure how
detailed you can be with these things (I don't have one).
My philosophy behind search engines is that you shouldn't need them : ). If
your site is not popular enough to be passed via word-of-mouth, then it
needs revamping. Search engines can be a good way to get leads, especially
when you're paying for key words (this is quickly becoming the only way
you'll show in search engines in the first page).
Anyway, I could go on about marketing, but you're still thinking "How can I
get my site in search engines?". : ). What is the nature of your site?
URL? I could think of some creative ways to market the site if you want.
Is it sciencehorizon.com?
Regards,
Blake Miller
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www.crackheaded.com
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From: "Palyne Gaenir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Crawler-Friendly URLs in CF
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 20:08:22 -0500
Thanks Jeremy. I really appreciate your taking the time to explain;
this is actually a pretty important topic. I think I'm not fully
'getting it' though. I must misunderstand something fundamental
here. One has to create a template/file for every single database
record? That can't work -- there could be a bazillion records,
thousands, even millions -- and the client is who adds/edits them, so
this could increase every minute, and it's not like I'd be there to
make a new blank template for every single record the client chooses
to add, each minute.
I have a site I made which is "semi-dynamic" (www.parapsychology.org)
-- I made static mostly-empty pages for everything, the nav uses IF-
based includes and the content of each page is pulled from a table.
I did it because I figured that would work with search engines (at
least, the ones that accept .cfm file extensions).
But it was a royal pain in the you-know-what, took vastly more work
than a simple but 100% dynamic, client-expandable site (such as
www.ehe.org) did -- and every time they want a new page, I have to
make it, which to me is the opposite logic (IMO my job has always
been to obsolete the need for myself so I can move on to better
things). I mean, I could stick to my simple old-fashioned html sites
(www.espresearch.com) if I wanted to have to create every bleepin'
page, but I don't want to be a secretary!
So in this 'template not found' scenario you discuss, say you set it
up today, and the client dumps in tons of data from all over the site
(in many different tables) tomorrow. Do you have to do something
else?
I guess what I keep praying for is a way to code it so that it just
works -- code it once and have it work, period, without having to
"keep up" with pages-per-record or entries-per-record or whatever.
Unless there is a way to make it so that every new record entered
generates an entry in some log that functions as an include inside a
redirect script -- er, I'm getting lost now.... :-)
Regards,
Palyne
Jeremy Ridout wrote:
> Actually, the missing template handler (MTH) works very well. [...]
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