I recently got the ASP.Net Website Programming: Problem * Design *Solution book. i got most of it working. Big question...when you have a page that is created on the fly how do you overcome the problem of search engines not searching each dynamic page in the site? I have tried to use a similar architecture and it seriously messed up the search engine results for my site. It is good for maintenance, but bad for search engine rankings.

There are all kinds of HTML meta tag and header stuff you can put in your pages that tell search bots/spiders not to index your pages. I don't know off hand what they all are but try googling "pragma nocache" and that should get you started.

-Peter

The key is "dynamic" Do Googles spiders/bots/whatever go through dynamic data also?

here is my scenario... The website I built has an single file that contains all the mettadata and such for each page. The content is dynamically created. It seems that Google gives it a lower ranking because it does not go through and connect the content with the meta-data and is reading the site as if it was only one page.

Search Engine Optimization is a real big issue these days, there are thousands of article on the web on this issue. You may find some good resources at

http://www.seochat.com/

http://forums.seochat.com/



Charul Shukla

Fast Loading web site designs is the number 1 tip that every web designer should follow. You might design a web site that looks fantastic but few people are going to see it if it takes a long time to load. Your designs should be optimized for the web and should not take more than 15 seconds to load. Remember, you might have a great design but very few people are going to see it if it takes a long time to load. You might want to consult a professional web developer or a website designer.
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