SE – Indexing the ‘Invisible’ Web, How?
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Hi,
I am just into my first week of having created a WordPress Blog site, and am now trying to understand what search engines can, or cannot see when they crawl a database driven site.They can of course see written posts and other visible information, read the site Title and various meta-tags etc, etc…, but what I guess they cannot see, or index, is any information that is deeply hidden inside a database.
In my case, the detail that is hidden inside this ‘invisible web’ are lists of church sermons, preacher names, Bible references and so on.
On my site, and on countless others that are doing the same thing, indexing of some of this ‘hidden’ information could be considered useful to the growth and visibility of the site in general. Access to the sermons database is provided by means a wonderful plugin authored by Mark Barnes (Sermons Browser). By using this plugin the database can be filtered / searched using a number of criteria.
My question is, apart from rigourously promoting the ‘site’ with submissions to directories and search engines, how do I, or anyone else for that matter, ensure that the sermons of the proverbial ‘Joe Bloggs’, plus old archived posts, hidden deeply inside the growing database, are able to be recognised and indexed by search engines?
Suggestions anyone?
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