: How do I get ranked for terms which do not have related published content? My site is database driven site for educational courses. I around 200 courses list with me. The users I am targeting

@Becky754

Yeah. There is a better way. Do it the traditional way. Really. I am not saying that you cannot have dynamic pages, just do not try and game the system. Create solid and valuable content for the topics and sub-topics you have. You can make it database driven so that courses can be added and deleted if you want. That would be a good idea.

You do not want thin content and you do not content made for machines. Trust me when I say, SEO, while keywords are important, is becoming less and less keyword centric and much more semantic. It all began in 2008 with Google Scholar and semantic search has elevated to a level that you would not believe. Even the slightest keyword loading/gaming will fail. It is not so much that Google is looking for gaming anymore, but that gaming fails the semantic ranking mechanisms.

BTW- if you have a small site, your sitemap will be ignored. Google and Bing prefer to spider sites, but will differ to the sitemap for larger sites. A site with a few hundred pages is a small site. If you want to have a dynamic site, then forego the sitemap if your site is small. Make sure that all of the pages can be found through links. As well, definitely do not use the sitemap for anything other than one to one mapping of pages. DO NOT use it to game systems. This is one area you do not want to play around with.

Do not try and game SEO. You will always lose. Do honest work. Really. If it makes it easier, use a CMS or blogging software. Wordpress, for example, yields excellent SEO.

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