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SEO and Wordpress? (9 posts)

  1. mdelaflor
    Member
    Posted 8 months ago #

    Hello,

    I am new to WP (one week to be exact). But I have managed to get my site up and running with a lot of help from folks in the support forums.

    I wanted to know how SEO works with WP since all pages are dynamic. How are the pages or content indexed by search engines?

    (WP 2.7, iNove)

    Mike

  2. samboll
    moderator
    Posted 8 months ago #

  3. mdelaflor
    Member
    Posted 8 months ago #

    Thank you Samboll you replies are helpful and I learned alot reading the link you posted.

    I wonder how does a bot crawl a dynamic site like WP? Since WP pages are not static and on a server directory somewhere how does the bot see the content sitting in a database? Does anyone know?

    Mike

  4. Chris_K
    Administrator
    Posted 8 months ago #

    nothing sees the database. Remember that all viewers, including bots, see the assembled pages. Nobody gets a direct view of the db :-)

  5. mdelaflor
    Member
    Posted 8 months ago #

    Ok now I am thorougly confused if there are no assembeled pages then what does a bot look at to index a site?

    Mike

  6. nv1962
    Member
    Posted 8 months ago #

    Depends. If it's a well-behaved bot, it'll crawl over the homepage, and follow links until it runs into the end of the world or NOINDEX instructions, and/or consult the robots.txt file, and/or consult the sitemap file (where available).

    Just remember that "dynamic" is not the same as "constantly changing" (i.e. of place or name). So, even if a page is generated on request, its address has been established previously, which makes it a predictable entity. Which, in the end, is what bots need so as to do their job.

  7. Chris_K
    Administrator
    Posted 8 months ago #

    The pages are assembled whenever they are requested. Doesn't matter if it is a bot or someone with a browser.

  8. mdelaflor
    Member
    Posted 8 months ago #

    OK I get it. Thanks...

  9. webjive81
    Member
    Posted 8 months ago #

    Another fantastic link around Wordpress SEO:

    http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/

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