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Dynamically Generated Titles

         

mdub

11:09 pm on Nov 12, 2001 (gmt 0)

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A client has hundreds of products, which are ASP driven and dynamically generated from a database.

Does anyknow how what the effect would be to dynamically generate a TITLE tag for each different product, so as to have specific title for each product page?

I know it can be done, but will the search engines see it as such or consider this spamming?

any help greatly appreciated.

click watcher

11:19 pm on Nov 12, 2001 (gmt 0)



any server side processing is done before the page is served, so creating titles dynamically with asp is fine, the spiders won't know it wasn't hard coded (wether asp pages are a good thing is another issue, check out the search facility on this site for more discussions around that)

if each page is unique to a product and the content is different then it will be ok

Woz

11:28 pm on Nov 12, 2001 (gmt 0)

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mdub,

as long as the final result looks like tags then there is no problem. I have done exactly what you are talking about with very good results.

The pros are that you can set up a small function to generate the tags dependant on information supplied within each page, and you can easily change tags across all pages by simply changing the function.

The cons are that each page will have a similar title so you need to make sure there is sufficient difference in each page. This can be done by inserting specific keywords on each page, or making the tag function a little more intelligent, or...

Of course the thing is that you have to install the function on every page and seed each page with insertable criteria anyway so it might be just as easy to do the tags from scratch.

Onya
Woz

mdub

10:52 pm on Nov 13, 2001 (gmt 0)

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ah no, because the page is the same throughout: all of the content is dynamically generated, including pictures, descriptions etc.

So you only have to put the function to call the title of the "product" and you're set. The problem I see is registered all of these pages by hand. Will take a long time.

mdub

mdub

10:53 pm on Nov 13, 2001 (gmt 0)

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clarification:

so the page is product_details.asp >

all of the content for each of the hundreds of products is generated on the fly....

Marcia

11:41 pm on Nov 13, 2001 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



mdub, are you saying that all the product pages within a certain category will have the same page titles?