Question

This isn’t really a coding question, but I wanted to ask about what is more efficient and what should I use.

I am making a tutorials website, and each tutorial is brought up onto a page “blog.php” on which all data comes from the database. Now I have two ways I can fill in the meta keywords tag and meta description tag.

I was thinking of making 2 new columns in the blogs table, keywords, and description, and the meta tags would be filled up correspondingly from the database, and the database would get the keywords and description from user input (whover wrote the blog). I know how I would do this but is this efficient? Because I heard search engines have a harder time reading stuff from the database, so I wanted to make sure.

So I can use that OR do you recommend that I use JQuery to get text from the title tag and use that type of stuff? It would be really great because I was hoping to use PHP to make it dynamic, but if I should use Jquery and javascript then please tell which is better!

Thanks!

Answer 1

Search engines never read stuff from the database.
They read only HTML generated by your script.

Storing keywords and description in database is all right.
The only thing you have to change in your setup is database design.
There shouldn’t be keywords field in the blog table. Instead of that there should be keywords table and keywords_blog lookup table to link between keywords and tutorials.