I recently updated my site OasisFanatic.com with search engine friendly links. One of my main reasons for doing that is to get more of my pages indexed by the search engines because most of my pages are "dynamic" PHP pages.

Here’s what I mean by "dynamic":

All my files require a "paremeter" in the URL to let the database know which record to display on the PHP page. Some people describe these database driven pages as "created on the fly".

My Old URLs looked like this:
http://www.oasisfanatic.com/discography/track_view.php?album_track_id=1040

Notice the question mark "?" followed by the text "album_track_id=" and a unique number? That is how the PHP page tells the database to display the correct information with the number "1040".

After implementing some search engine friendly upgrades with Apache web server’s "mod_rewrite" module….

My New URLs look like this:
http://www.oasisfanatic.com/discography/oasis/song/0/1040/keep-the-dream-alive.html

Now my URLs end with *.html and I have every Oasis song title as the file name. The 2 URLs above refer to the same page! These URLs look very much like the Amazon.com style URLs. Obviously the new URLs will help me get more indexed pages into the search engines than the old URL.

I would like to get into Google with a lot more than my current 253 indexed pages. Google doesn’t seem to like URLs with "?xxxx=1234" at the end. Its not that they can’t index it but not as much as some other search engines. I will show you what I mean with my indexed pages.

Current Indexed Pages

Altavista - 23100
Google - 253
MSN - 212
Yahoo - 22900

As you can see, Google and MSN only have 200 odd indexed pages. Why in the world is there a 20000 page difference between them and Altavista and Yahoo? If you look at the indexed pages, Altavista and Yahoo seem to be able to index my old URLs with no problem at all. Google and MSN don’t really like them so much I guess! I can imagine a flood of traffic if I manage to get 20000+ indexed pages in both Google and MSN.

Please download the indexed pages as of 16 May 2005* before I start blogging and pinging my pages.

Current Traffic

I receive an average of 3000 unique visitors to Oasis Fanatic per day. Boy if all my affiliate site receive this much free targeted search engine traffic, I will be rich by now. I have never paid and money to promote this web site. Its all free traffic from the search engines and link exchanges.

Please download my AWStats generated web site traffic log as of 14 May 2005* before I start blogging and pinging my pages.

Blogging and Pinging Will Start At Any Moment Now….

I will first have to compile a list of URLs I want the search engines to index. I have too many pages and I just want to focus on the songs, lyrics and tabs URLs of my site.

* I am almost 12 hours + ahead of the US time therefore when I posted this it was already 16th in Singapore and it was 15th in the US.

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