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Dynamic Pages
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Clare Lawrence
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Dynamic pages and the Search
Engines By Clare Lawrence 10th March 2003 Clare is the CEO
of Discount Domains Ltd a leading UK Domain name
registration service.
Do search engines such as Google penalise dynamic pages?
Dynamic pages are used to deliver content from a database
to websites – the advantage being that data can be
updated and the contents of pages changed without the need
to reload pages etc.
Google publishes guidance notes on its site at
http://www.google.com/webmasters/2.html
and at http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html
These say that dynamic pages are indexed but that the
Googlebot ( Google’s spider ) can overwhelm dynamic
sites and therefore the amount of pages indexed are
limited
Google recommends:- “If you decide to use dynamic pages
(i.e. the URL contains a ‘?’ character) be aware that
not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as
well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters
short and the number of them small.
How to get dynamic pages indexed
There are ways to get dynamic pages indexed, if the site
is relatively small, then create a site map, which has
static links to each of the dynamic pages. This gives the
search engines a “doorway” to the dynamic pages.
For larger sites there are a number of ways to change the
syntax of a dynamic URL so that it appears to be static.
e.g.
http://www.discountdomainsuk.com/glossary.php?lang=english&gid=28
can be re-written as
http://www.discountdomainsuk.com/glossary/english/28
Index pages If your index page is dynamical generated then
it will be particularly difficult for search engines to
index your site. If possible you should avoid dynamically
generated index pages
Algorithms
The search engines and Google in particular are getting
better at indexing dynamic pages.
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Conclusion,
Dynamic pages are very useful to deliver content
particularly if you wish to use a content management
system. The Search engines do have some difficulties with
dynamic content, but there are ways to improve the chances
of dynamic pages being indexed.
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About
The Author
Clare
Lawrence is CEO of Discount Domains Ltd
– A leading UK provider of Domain name
registration and Web Hosting services.
Please feel free to re-publish this
article provided this reference box
remains together with a hyperlink to http://www.discountdomainsuk.com
Clare can also be contacted on clare@discountdomainsuk.com. |
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