aspx - search engine friendly?

looking for feedback ..

[dpworld]

Hello,

We are bulding an Ecom site and are searching for a search engine friendly platform to build it on. Can anyone give any feedback on .net?

Thanks in advance ;-)

[ziggystardust]

It's as good as any platform ;)

Good luck
//ZS

[IanTurner]

We have all our shopping cart, payment and back office written in .Net now, but wouldn't risk putting product pages into .Net, we prefer them to be flat .html pages.

[Xoc]

None of the search engines care about the file extension on the file. As long as the file produces standard html, they couldn't care less. If your pages validate [validator.w3.org], then the spiders are happy.

Some search engines don't like overly complex query strings. And every page must be able to be reached from another page using an <a> tag with a html href, not javascript. That means thinks like link buttons don't count. Spiders ignore javascript (with a few minor exceptions).

[edit_g]

Hold back on the lenght of query strings and number of parameters - you can do this with a little working around. I've used it to great success before - nothing to worry about as long as you follow the points outlined by the previous posters.

[Easy_Coder]

rather then fret about the querystring why not use the capebilities of .net and rewrite the url on the fly to something spider friendly?

[dhaliwal]

easy coder

could you please list those capabilities, (read as code) to re write url using .net

I will be of great help

thanks in advance

[Easy_Coder]

Because we can't post url's here I stickied you a url of an article written by Jeff Prosise titled "Rewrite URLs on the Fly Use HttpContext.RewritePath [aspnetpro.com] to "fake" URLs within an application." The article includes source code...

[edited by: Xoc at 1:35 am (utc) on July 6, 2004]
[edit reason] Made link active...this kind of link is fine. [/edit]

[duckhunter]

Awesome find. I've been looking for a way to do that in .NET aside from ISAPI rewrites.

[Easy_Coder]

Prosise has published some pretty darn good stuff to...