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 | Enhancing GoogleTap with Keyword Optimized URLs | Thursday, 11 September 2008 @ 02:12 PM |
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"Google-Tapping" is a form of a search engine optimization technique used to convert dynamic links into static links using PHP and Apache's modrewrite (.htaccess) for PHP-Nuke powered sites. In simple terms, it converts a long url such as index.php?page=Hello to hello.html. This serves 2 main purposes:
Better search engine indexing
Converting dynamic links (index.php?page=Somepage) to static links (somepage.html). This not only makes URLs shorter, it also increases the number of indexable pages. For example: Google only regards index.php?page=1 and index.php?page=2 as ONE page (index.php), even though it is capable of displaying 2 pages. Converting the dynamic URL to page1.html and page2.html makes it 2 separate pages.
Increasing Pagerank
Since Google regards each 'Google-tapped' page as a separate page, the backlinks from the page are also regarded as links from separate pages. Hence this can potentially increase a site's pagerank significantly in the long run.
Although Googletap improves indexing and all that, its not very efficient with keyword representation in the URLs. Since Google also indexes URL keywords (example: Extracting 'tutorial' from index.php?page=Tutorials), it would significantly benefit a webmaster to convert all his website urls to contain searchable keywords right? Consider these 2 converted pages: article-1.html and article-1-GoogleTap_Tutorial.html, which do you think will have a better chance of being found? You get the point.
With that in mind, the idea now is to enhance your existing GoogleTap script into allowing extra content (keywords) in the URLs. This will require you to edit the php script files for each module/page. Read on for a tutorial on modifying the script codes.
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Still too much work... 8(