Coldfusion Help

[SEOchica]

I was hoping to gain some insight into optimizing a site that's completely done in coldfusion. IMO, it doesn't NEED to be in coldfusion, so I'm thinking of having the site recreated using html and php when necessary.

Is it possible to optimize a coldfusion site without creating a bunch of landing pages (which wouldn't be ideal).

Thoughts?

(thanks for any help... I'm new here!!) :)

[David Wallace]

It really doesn't matter if it is ColdFusion, ASP, PHP, JSP, etc. so long as you can optimize title tags and content. Now if you run into problems such as the title or meta tags being in one include file for example where you cannot have unique title and meta description tags for each page, then there are ways to fix that. However, ColdFusion in itself should not be any deterrent to gaining visibility in the search engine results pages.

[SEOchica]

it looks like it's one page.

www.sitename.com/content.cfm?fuseaction=dsp_page_name

and the only thing that changes is the reference to which chunk of content.

There is no ability to modify the title tags for each page. It's just the one page with the content changing.

[Mikkel deMib Svendsen]

There are in fact some special issues with ColdFusion that you have to take care of. However, there are, as far as I am aware, still solutions available. I never personally did much work in ColdFusion but I can dig out the soloution for you. Jake Baile usually have it in his presentation in the Dynamic session with me at Search Engine Strategies.

Besides that, David is right, the rest is just a question regular dynamic optimization

[bakedjake]

Mikkel woke me up from my nap and didn't even spell my name right ;-) How's it going on the other side of the pond - isn't it bedtime yet? :)

chica, check out the fusebox framework for CF, specifically the <cf_formurl2attributessearch> attribute.

-- jake