Hello,
My forum gets plenty of visitors from google. Whenever this happens, I can see in the URL referrer field the question that brings them to my site. What I want is to include this question (keywords) on the landing page. This way in future crawls from google the topic gets "richer" with these keywords that visitors used in google to find my pages.
For example, when a person googles for "run windows external hard drive" and visit my site, the referring URL becomes:
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Basically speaking, you just need to pick up these referrers, place them on MySQL and then list on the target page when viewed by others.
What does this involve?
- PHP, MySQL knowledge
- IPB forum software (I provide a copy for you to use)
- Create a mod for IPB (this is based on PHP)
How will this be done?
- A box on the bottom of the topic lists the sentences logged from previous google visits
- Repeated sentences get counted
- Sentences with the higher counting or more recent entry get listed on top
- Listing can be set with a limit from the admin panel
- These google sentences can be edited/removed from the admin panel
Useful links
- learn to create an IPB hook: [login to view URL]
- learn to create an IPB application: [login to view URL]
This is a simple task, if you are comfortable with PHP then it is something quick to get done.
I have a great deal of experience in this kind of project. Grabbing the parameter sentence and storing it into MySQL is very straight forward. I've work with forum software but not as much with IPB (learning will be on my time!) It will not be difficult.
The larger development will be an admin panel to edit/remove/set limits. This will require a web page, unless you already have an admin page.
I can develop the page or make the modifications.
While I am new to freelancing I have over 30 years of software development and teaching experience. I communicate frequently, meet budgets and timelines and ensure customer satisfaction. I look forward to working with you on this project.
-Tom