search engine help

[ahksar]

I have a site that uses CFML to access data in an access database. When I search google for data in the site, nothing gets pulled up, or if it does, it is just the top level page, and I have to click through to get to the relevant page...any help as to make my database more searchable on the internet will be appreciated..
thanks,
Ahksar

 

[Wullie]

Hi mate,

If your site uses query strings, then check out some of the results from the following link.

[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=search+engine+friendly+urls+coldfusion&btnG=Google+Search&meta=[/URL]

Hope this helps Wullie

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[ecobb]

Here is an article by Ben Forta on making your database driven web sites "Search Engine Friendly". It focuses mainly on sites passing Url variables.

http://www.sys-con.com/coldfusion/article.cfm?id=388

Hope this helps.

 

[ahksar]

Thanks for the help. Search engines still show the old files and old urls(with query strings). I did the following.
1.Enabled removal of Query Strings From Dynamic URLs
2.Converted all database files into static html
3.All urls are relative to the root directory
4.descriptive meta tags and title tags

Could anyone suggest what else I do?like resubmit my site to major search engines, etc...any help will be appreciated...

thanks,
ahksar