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How to make dynamic titles

         

astoller

9:41 pm on Dec 19, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Suppose I have a table of countries
How can I generate say, 100 pages, each with a different country in the title?

How does google then crawl through all of them, because they are not static pages?

John_Caius

1:39 am on Dec 20, 2002 (gmt 0)

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You can make dynamic pages and use mod-rewrite to make them look static. If you use an Apache server. See the Website Technology Issues forum for more details. There are alternatives for different types of server.

Hardwood Guy

2:33 am on Dec 20, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Astoller:

Are you attempting to get traffic if each surfer types in a particular country? I stumbled across an idea you may be interested in. If people are looking for widget installers for example on my site they can find them in every US state. Example "widget installer ohio" My site comes up number one most of the time on google and yahoo when any state is used in the search.

Maybe I'm thinking something different here.

Ken

sun818

4:42 am on Dec 20, 2002 (gmt 0)

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:)

daamsie

6:03 am on Dec 20, 2002 (gmt 0)



HI astoller,

I've had great success making dynamic titles and meta tags. Depending on what coding language you're using, it should work fine. Google picks up on most dynamic files, so no problem there.. Just make sure the links to the pages aren't part of a form, because Google won't like that much. I would suggest making a list of countries sorted alphabetically or something, each linking to a page something like.. xx.com/country.cfm?country=xxx

You may have to wait a little while for google to index it, but eventually it does and you will find a lot of people getting to your site using the country name in their search terms.

Cheers

astoller

12:02 pm on Dec 20, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Ken
Please share what yuhave inmind
Thanks

Daamsie
How do you create dynamic urls and dynamic titles?

daamsie

7:52 am on Dec 21, 2002 (gmt 0)



Hi Astoller,

I have done it in coldfusion, using the following tag..


<CFOUTPUT QUERY="queryxx">
<CFHTMLHEAD TEXT = "<title>Widgets in #country#</title>
<meta name='description' content='Look for a widget in #country#'>
<meta name='keywords' content='widget, #country#'>
">
</CFOUTPUT>

That's the code I use in Coldfusion anyway.. if you're familiar with coldfusion, you should be able to integrate that with a query quite easily. If you need another coding language, you'd better search through coding sites, not a Google News site :)