I'm trying to create a blog ..and for every entry I have a template page called entry.php I create the pages by creating a link from my home page like this
mywebsite.com/entry.php?title=My Title&content=This is my blog
This link is passed to entry.php and a page is generated on the fly based on the link i wrote but search engines wont index these.
Do I really have to create a unique page for every entry I create?
Do sites like youtube have individual pages for every single video or are they generated dynamically like im trying to do. If so how do the videos show up in search results?
Ive heard something called .htaccess or sitemap.xml can be used for this I have no idea what these are though.
.htaccessThere are a lot of generators for .htaccess and you can use one of them. The best thing to do is, using a .htaccess file, create the paths this way:
mywebsite.com/entry.php?title=My Title&content=This is my blog
Change them to:
mywebsite.com/My Title/This is my blog
And the code for the same is:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)\.html$ /entry.php?title=$1&content=$2 [L]
As long as the page is linked to from somewhere, search engines will find the page. It does not matter how the page is generated. A link is a URL, when requesting this URL the browser or any other client (including search engines) receive the page content, period. It works like any other regular page, search engines don't know or care what happens behind the scenes to generate this page.