What if use TeamDesk to make data available to search engine?

Caspio announcement of new SEO technology makes you wonder if other vendors can offer their ways in this respect. How TeamDesk solves this issue and what one can expect from the system if talk about making data available to the largest possible audience?

This is what Kirill Bondar, the representative of TeamDesk Support, said:

"For every application TeamDesk provides SOAP API to allow data manipulation from third party web pages or applications - it's a part of standard functionality. All you need to start working with an API is a SOAP-enabled language like C#, VB.NET, Java, PHP or Ruby. Of course you can use API from JavaScript as well - the connector classes are provided.

To see it in action, you may want to check TeamDesk application library."

"Its content is managed by our team through regular TeamDesk application that allows editing the title, keywords, descriptions, place images and attach support documents, categorize applications and many more."

As you can see the TeamDesk uses the same approach QuickBase offers. The good news is you can use TeamDesk as back-end database for your site for only $9/month. But one should note this implementation requires knowledge of scripting and is not available in simple wizard-like style as Caspio offers.

When will Zoho Creator get to the point to make app data available to search engine?

Is there a way to get an access to the data stored out of Zoho Creator ecosystem? Is Deluge Script the only way to access and manipulate data in Zoho Creator?

I asked these questions Zoho Support to figure out how to implement SEO deployment method within Zoho Creator platform.

This is what Charles form Zoho Creator answered:

"Currently this is not possible in Zoho Creator. However, as a first step, we are planning to address this in a completely different way. In this case, users would not need to have any servers on their end. We will let users add their domain name mapped to an application and the entire application will be served from a sub-domain which will have the application name as the prefix (sub-domain name). For example, if your company name is xyz.com and you have an application named products, you can access the page from products.xyz.com. Going forward, we will provide direct deployment to servers that support PHP, ASP, and JSP."

Well, it's kinda difficult to make any conclusions based on future plans not seeing any specific implementation. But as I see it now Zoho Creator is not that search engine friendly, as it dynamically generates pages using JavaScript on the end user's browser. So, search engine recognizes only lots and lots of JavaScipt code but content of your app.

How does QuickBase make data available to largest possible audience?

With recent Caspio Bridge announcement of new SEO deployment method I wondered how many vendors out there catch up with that. Apparently, QuickBase has something to show us in this respect as well.

I asked QuickBase support if there was any chance to accomplish it in QuickBase and this was the answer Kirk Trachy provided me with:

"QuickBase customers have been managing their web content with QuickBase for years. In fact our website is littered with content that originates in a QuickBase database and is presented dynamically on our website via PHP SDK and our native QuickBase API. SEO is naturally built into the content as our web server renders dynamic pages. This is standard use of our free API and you can use any of our six SDKs to do it - free. You can use PHP, VB, Ruby, JAVA, C# and Pearl and if you want to do client side stuff you can use JavaScript."

The screenshot shows the look of QuickBase backend database:


The content is created and edited in QuickBase application. Then on Intuit servers the results are published on QuickBase web site using Quickbase SDKs and API:



Data is dynamic – including text, graphics and SEO. The benefit of managing web content in a database like QuickBase are many. Now contributing team members can update the content they are responsible for and updates to titles, text, graphics and tags including SEO keywords is immediate and without the delays and bottlenecks of waiting for the webmaster to make these changes.

Along with good news from QuickBase there are several moments you should take into account in case you consider QuickBase as back-end database for your web site. Even though the use of API is free, QuickBase's cheapest license costs more than Caspio: their minimal payment is $249/month $299/month. Note, in case you need more space for images or videos additional 100MB cost $100/month.

Update

QuickBase has recently changed their prices. Now minimal payment is $299/month with 1 Gig of file attachment space and unlimited applications. You can add additional gigs for just $25/month.

Will Caspio SEO Technology be a Breakthrough for Cloud Database Apps as promised?

Recently Caspio Bridge has announced groundbreaking new SEO deployment method, empowering web publishers to easily make their data available to the largest possible audience.

This is what Frank Zamani, founder and CEO of Caspio, says:

"Caspio's new SEO deployment model is a game-changer, opening up unlimited possibilities for our customers to reach search engine users and leverage data for profitable business ventures."

Let's take a closer look what's that about.

As with all deployment models of Caspio Bridge, the deployment code does not contain any of your data. It is a set of instructions that retrieves the appropriate data and application interfaces from your Caspio Bridge account, in real time at the moment it is accessed by a user.


The difference between SEO deployment and other deployment models is that the deploy code does not run on the end user's browser. Instead, the SEO deployment code runs on your server. This is critical, because the search engine crawler must believe that the data resides on your own server. When the page with the SEO deployment code is accessed by a user or Web crawler, your server executes the deployment code, retrieves the data from Caspio, and delivers it to the requestor.

This is the look of wizzard that generates code for SEO deplyment:


Caspio provides the deploy code in three languages: PHP, ASP and ASPX.

There is one important moment of all this, the price:

"SEO deployment is available now to Caspio Bridge Professional or higher packages starting at $189.95 per month."

This sum is not that small I must say - $2279.40 per year.

I wonder if this new opportunity will really be a "game-changer", what other vendors can offer and at which price?