Several years ago I developed a huge online book store with more than 15,000 books cataloged across the site. It was a difficult task written in PERL with a MySQL database. Yes, PERL, it was a while back. The site was developed with Google in mind. Indexes of books by category, author, type, style, etc. were developed to act as fodder for GoogleBot, Google’s search engine spider. This method worked extremely well for several years, until recently.
Google has developed what they refer to as “Supplemental Pages”. Or in SEO talk, pages of lesser value in the eyes of Google. Google claims … Continue reading Supplemental Pages – How Google Beat Database Designed Web Sites!