Question about "dynamic" site pages?

Why don't SE's see them?

[vdc_ent]

Why is it that search engines like Google and Yahoo do not recognize "dynamic" site pages as legitimate to a site's construction?

Who made this "rule" and why?

It seems a bit archaic in these times of ecommerce and the amount of ecommerce on the Internet.

[jtbell]

Google *does* crawl dynamic pages, but with some restrictions. For example, it doesn't like to crawl URLs with query strings that contain a parameter named "id" because it's often a session ID that changes from one visit to the next. Also, I've read that Google is more likely to crawl dynamic pages deeply if the starting page has a high PageRank value.

[jatar_k]

with each query string you get different content but it is truly the same page.

Use mod_rewrite or find a way to redesign into actual pages. Huge query strings are a pain anyway. Hard for someone to email it to a friend, impossible for someone to remember a specific page off the top of their head, etc.

They also look nasty ;)

[AjiNIMC]

The normal sites ( I mean static) is more preffered as it gives you a better and clear picture of the site, while a dynamic site has complexity associated with it.

Aji

[vdc_ent]

Thank you all for your input... I still don't know how you can get a higher Page Rank if you can't be seen in the first place! My home page is not "dynamic", but the product pages are. So the site will never get "ranked" because Google/Yahoo sees it as a one page only site. It is the site builder I used when I was a newbie and didn't know better. To rebuild or transer is too big for me to consider.

Outside of building static pages that link back to my site, does anyone have any other helpful suggestions?

[jatar_k]

The normal sites ( I mean static) is more preffered

a lot of my sites look perfectly static and none are

rewrite the url's so they look static.

An Introduction to Redirecting URLs on an Apache Server [webmasterworld.com]

[SoleDrag]

So id=blahblahblah is a no no right?

What about:

[widgets.com...]

If I have to change this, I'm gonna be sick.

[jatar_k]

?ca=3

shouldn't be viewed as an id

[jranes]

Trust me, there are sites with nice short q string params that have thousands and thousands of dynamic pages indexed.

[AjiNIMC]

even some of my dynamic pages were among the first indexed pages of my site. They are still there though I am re-directing it.

The best is redirect it and make it simple and static.

The keyword is

"SIMPLE for USER"

Aji

[lgn1]

Does anybody have An Introduction to Redirecting URLs on an Microsoft IIs server.

I can find plenty of info on Appache, however our ISP in there infinite stupidity went with IIS.

Our ISP is great otherwise, so we rather work around the IIS issues rather than switch to an ISP that uses the industry standard Appache.

[BlueSky]

The SE's are cautious about dynamic urls because they don't want their bots to get lost and don't want to crash your server. I've seen bots get lost quite frequently on other people's sites when urls have session ids. They'll pull the same pages over and over day after day as the id changes, but the content doesn't. With dynamic pages, there's no way for them to tell how many you have. On some sites, they could end up requesting pages for an extremely long time with no end in site. So, where do they cut off? One, two, five, ten, or more variables? The more there are the more paths the bot could go down and possibly get lost. So, they arbitrarily limit it.

If you rewrite the urls to make them static looking, the bots will index your pages with no problems. However, if you get a lot of them accessing your site at the same time, they can easily slow your site and server way down or even crash it.

[pageoneresults]

Does anybody have An Introduction to Redirecting URLs on an Microsoft IIs server.

I've reviewed a few of the programs that are available on the market for redirecting URIs in IIS. I would recommend the ISAPI Rewrite program as it is probably the most robust of the programs available.

You'll need to familiarize yourself with the use of regular expressions. You'll also want to prepare for setting up your 301s and 404s where applicable.

Rewrite your URIs so they are short and descriptive with minimal use of hyphens. You want to make them easy to read, bookmark and share with others verbally.

Careful planning needs to go into the new URI structure. Once you have them set up, you don't want to change them.

[vdc_ent]

Again... thanks for all the great info. How can I "rewrite" the URLs to make them appear static? Please don't make the explanations too techno... I'm still a newbie in many ways...