I have a simple home rolled boat building forum that gets 3-6 posts a
day
(looking like 2000 posts by the end of the year, not big, but
always growing).
This forum is file based (no mysql). Google spiders my site frequently,
but they never seem to spider the dynamically generated forum
pages for some reason (and there are no html errors).
I know I could use htaccess /od_write tricks to masquerade the
dynamic pages as static. But it recently occured to me (because
my forum is file based) there is no reason not to adorn the saved
text with markup tags, and turn what used to be text-only files
into autonomous, static html pages, one such page for each
new post in the forum. Google will index those pages for sure.
But I'm lazy and this will end up taking 2-3 evenings of work.
Is mod_rewrite the only alternative, for this dilemma?
I'm just curious to know what the issues are.
