snowmansmartie - 2:54 pm on Jul 18, 2006 (gmt 0)

I am currently building a website that will be mainly database driven. It will contain forums, message boards and blogs. As this site is going to be open to the public the client has requested that all information within the databse, relating to forums, message boards and blogs can be found using search engines such as Google, Altavista, Yahoo etc, etc.

What I really need to know is, can Google and the other search engines crawl into the Database to be able get the information searched for within the search engine?

If it can how does it do it, is there anything I need to do to make this easier?

The client "wants" to create all dynamically generated pages containing forums, message boards and blogs to also be stored as HTML (I am suddenly seeing millions of webpages! argh!)!

This is as you can imagine a very mind blowing thought, but he has mananged to convince my managers this is the way to do it.

I really need a good definitive answer to this, so I can go back to my Managers and tell them.

Any other help and advice would be great, thanks.