PHP , Internet Business Marketing , & Good Web Content Go Hand In Hand
Everyone has heard that content is king when it comes to search
engine optimization and just good old plain web site marketing
smarts. But how you present that content on your site can also
make a world of difference.
PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting
language that lets you create dynamic web pages. PHP-enabled web
pages are treated just like regular HTML pages and you can
create and edit them the same way you normally create regular
HTML pages.
Now here is were it gets interesting. Search engines like Google
Yahoo and MSN love fresh new content that is changing on a daily
basis. But if you are using a java script snippet the search
engines will not be able to read the content. If however you are
using a PHP type script the content will automatically be
transformed into HTML and the search engines will be able to
pick it up and read it.
The first thing you will need to do before you jump onto the PHP
bandwagon is to make sure your web host provider has PHP
support. Most do but if you are only paying for basic services
or using a free host you may have to pay for an upgrade. It's
well worth it trust me.
One of the best PHP based scripts you can add to any web site is
the forum or bulletin board. Forums will take on a life of their
own after several 100 members have joined and are posting
threads on a daily basis. If 100 members seems like a lot think
again. I have one work from home internet business forum and
after just 2 month I already have over 70 members. Each time
someone posts to the forum the HTML changes and the search
engines treat it as new content.
Another great PHP script you can add is the link directory. You
can actually set up a categorized reciprocal link directory with
20 links on each page and the process is completely automated. I
have mine set up so that I have to approve each link first but
if you want you could by pass this so that once your script is
set up the directory will just start to grow all on its own with
no additional work on your part. Again each time someone adds a
new link you HTML page is changing. Make sure you add categories
that are relative to your main theme. My directory for example
has categories for work from home , internet business and
business opportunities because that's what my web site is all
about. Also make sure you have added instructions on how they
can link back to you. This is the reason why I like to approve
all my liks first. No reciprocal link back to my site NO
directory listing.
PHP can also be used for blogging. Wordpress is one of the most
popular PHP script based blogging tools. I have not used
Wordpress but I do use blogger for all my blogging. A weblog
(usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelled web log) is
a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic
articles (normally in reverse chronological order). Although
most early weblogs were manually updated, tools to automate the
maintenance of such sites made them accessible to a much larger
population, and the use of some sort of browser-based software
is now a typical aspect of "blogging". With a blog or web log
you can make daily posts on almost any subject matter creating
new content for the search engines to crawl. To date Yahoo seems
to be giving a bit of an edge to all my blogs incuding my work
form home internet business news site. Ironically most of the
post on that blog come from yahoo and or Google news. This is a
great way to get free content on a daily basis for your blog.
Just go to Google news or yahoo news and type in the keywords
you are using for your blog. Each day there will be a new news
article that you can legally use on your blog.
There are many more PHP scripts that you can use on your website
to automatically create fresh new content with. The ones listed
above are the ones I have downloaded for free and installed to
my web host. If you are not using PHP now is a good time to get
started.
About the author:
Tom Worsley is a successful www.bigmoolla.com>work
from home Internet marketer and independent representative
for Strong
Future International (SFI) , Owner and Webmaster for http://kawarthapublishing.com
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Written By: Tom Worsley