ColdFusion Site Ranking

[TamedTech]

Hello there Guys,

I'm fresh back onto the web-development market after a few years brake working as a systems engineer.

I'm currently developing a project using Coldfusion, this means that nearly all of my sites content will be driven from a MySQL data base and displayed as a .cfm file.

As I build the site i am thinking about all the usual steps to help give myself a decent ranking once the site is launched, such as using CSS and keeping all my content highly relevent, bolding and linking any keywords to other relevent pages, also working on marketing and blogging the site so we get plenty of high-quality inbound traffic.

I'm hoping that the use of ColdFusion isnt going to effect the ranking of the site once it has launched, can anyone shed any light on whether this is likely to happen? if so is there anything i can do to avoid it?

I'm hoping that the Bots and Spiders will be reading my published code as if it were a standard HTML.

Many Thanks,

Rob

 

[johnwm]

In general all server side stuff has happened before the page is served, so any bots will be unaware of the actual server mechanism, whether it's hard-coded text, or ASP, PHP or CF generated. To confirm that, just browse to one of your CF-generated pages and look at the source

________________________________________________________________
If you want to get the best response to a question, please check out FAQ222-2244 first.
'If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?'
Drive a Steam Roller

 

[Wullie]

If you want to try and disguise the URL to look like static pages, you can use the following:

<cfscript> 
qstring = replace(CGI.path_info,CGI.script_name,""); 
for(i=1; listlen(qstring,"/") GTE i; i=i+1){ 
if(i MOD 2){ 
qstringvariable = listgetat(qstring,i,"/"); 
}else{ 
"URL.#qstringvariable#" = listgetat(qstring,i,"/"); 
} 
} 
</cfscript>

Place that at the top of your file or if you are using includes, put that in the include so it is added to all of your files.

Then when you are coding your links, instead of /index.cfm?var1=value1&var2=value2, use /index.cfm/var1/value1/var2/value2

Hope this helps

Wullie

Fresh Look - Quality Coldfusion 7/Windows Hosting

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell