coding keeping SEO in mind.

blyzard · 4th November 2005, 05:21 AM

Hi!

I am very new to PHP, Mysql so bear with me and any help will be appreciated.

I was wondering if it is a good idea (for better placement to google and other search engine) to make a header.php and footer.php and then call it with every other php pages I generate for my website including index.php?
This header.php contains the keywords and metatags etc etc needed for the search engine.

Thanks again.

**Mr. Tech** · 4th November 2005, 08:51 AM

Welcome to the forums!

Yes, you can do that. That is a good way to do it.

The only thing that would probably need to be changed on every page would be the description meta tag. I've seen Google use the meta description in its search results so it is worth having. Because every page is different, it is good to have a different description for each page.

Here is a way to make the meta description different on every page.

header.php

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title><?php echo $title; ?></title>
<meta name="description" content="<?php echo $description; ?>">
<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo $keywords; ?>">
</head>
etc. etc.

index.php

Code:

<?php
$title = "My website!"
$description = "The unique description goes here.";
$keywords = "The unique keywords go here";
include("header.php");
?>
ect. etc.

Hope that helps

blyzard · 4th November 2005, 11:57 AM

Thanks for the prompt reply.