ASP/DB and search engines

[webboy1]

Hi,

I assume that search engines will not be able to read any information that is being pulled from an SQL database via ASP. I figure this is true but can someone confirm it?

Webboy

[Xoc]

Not necessarily true. If the results of the query are in HTML, and you have a hyperlink to the specific query from an existing page, then the results will be indexed. For example:

page 1: <a href="page2.asp?id=10">page 2</a>

page 2: performs the query:

select * from customers where id=" & request.querystring("id")

and you place the results of the query on the page using scripting, then the results will be indexed by Google and Fast. The search engine has to have available a hyperlink to the page that produces the answer.

[brotherhood of LAN]

You can also have a query defined in the ASP before the page is requested, e.g. outputting page content from the database.

That way you have a dynamic page with a static URL. No problems with search engines there anyway.

[chris_f]

I have 532 ASP/SQL sites and 32 ASP.net/SQL sites. All baring 3 are number 1 for their primary and secondary keywords. The rule is. If it can be output into a form of markup language HT(ML) XHT(ML) X(ML) etc.. It can be read by a search engine.

Chris