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How to make your site search engine friendly in 2.56 minutes.

Contributed by We are working on so on Nov 09, 2001 - 12:40 PM

How to do it?


1) Start Internet Explorer.


2) Goto your site: e.g.: http://www.jan-mantkowski.de/index.php and save it as index.html.


3) Publish this index.html and the corresponding folder index_files at you website.


4) DONE.




What will happen?


The next time a guest visits your page index.html will we displayed instead of index.php. So the first page of your site is now search engine friendly.




What will you get?


- First page loads a lot faster.


- All links will work.


- Works with IE and Opera (Tested with IE 5.50 and Opera 5.12).


- Your site will be indexed by all search engines, not only Google, which is (as i know) the only search engine that indexes dynamic pages.




What will you loose?


- The first page is no longer dynamic.


- So content will not change.




Work arounds:


a) Remove date and time from saved index.html


( Have a look at http://www.jan-mantkowski.de and compare it with the original http://www.jan-mantkowski.de/index.php).


See? No time.


So a guest might not even notice that he is visiting a "outdated" page.




Have fun!
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