What if I told you I could almost instantly make 200,000+ unique pages on a website as soon as I wrote the software to do it, and uploaded it to my web server? That is exactly what I did with my two sites here, SingleBlackDating, and FileFin.
Unfortunately, the sites no longer exist on the web anymore since I've stopped my internet company and started on my career path to be an engineer and physicist. Luckily, I still have the software and databases behind the two websites, and some old screenshots of one them thanks to the Web Archive.
SingleBlackDating.com
This was notably a dating site geared toward the African-American demographic. There are a lot of African-Americans all over the 50 States of the US, so how do I make custom web pages based on state, county, city, and ZIP code? Why, with an enormous database provided by the Census Bureau, of course! Using PHP and MySQL database software, I was able to construct a dynamic website that made pages on the fly based on information I fed the site from a assortment of databases of information. The website used the State/County/City/ZIP database to break the website down into over 200,000+ pages, all based on a unique US city or ZIP code listed. Each city page had a short blurb advertising the dating service, and pulled even more information from a database of restaurants, and even recommended a restaurant for a date. The site isn't viewable anymore, but you can download the software and databases that ran it.
Download SingleBlackDating.com
FileFin.com
A site for free software developers to promote their stuff. Not your typical site. Using a bit of imagination you can actually make your websites do work for you. In order to promote SingleBlackDating.com I constructed FileFin.com, a dynamic databases driven site with PHP, MySQL, and a freeware package called PadKit. How it worked was when a software developer found my site, he/she was looking to list their software in my database of free software for all of the web to see. The site was free to use, but there was a catch. The software developer had to make a link on their website promoting my SingleBlackDating.com site. On the free software submission page I had PHP and MySQL automatically select a unique web page from the 200,000+ for the developer to link to on his/her site. The problem was, how was I sure that the software developer actually did link back? Well, thanks to PHP programming I wrote a little piece of code that checked to make sure a link to my site was found before the submission went through. If there was no link back, the software developer could not link to my site. All of this was automatic, and I never had to maintain the site. Last I checked on FileFin, there were 11784 software submissions.
Download FileFin.com
Here are some screenshots of the site I found on the Web Archive:
