dynamically generated index page

good or bad?

[macrost]

Hello everyone!
I have a simple question, what is the cons to having a dynamically generated index page? Is it spiderable? The meta keywords and title and description are pulled from a database(the reason I have this is because I also have articles, but I wanted it to be easy for my seo person to modify...)
Any thoughts?
Mac

[Fischerlaender]

As long as the URL of your page contains no parameter, there shouldn't be any problems with spiders. If however your URL looks like /article.php?id=123, then you will have problems with certain search engines.

If this is the case with your solution, do a search for mod_rewrite here and you'll find plenty of information.

[macrost]

Ya, I would like to do a mod_rewrite, but I am hosted on win2kpro through a hosting company. I think I have seen a couple of posts that detail how to do something like a mod_rewrite, could you point me in the right direction?
Thanks!
Mac

[Fischerlaender]

There exists an extension for MS IIS called IISRewrite, which is a clone of mod_rewrite. Perhaps you can convince your hosting company to buy and install it for you.

I know a solution for the Apache web server, which utilizes the .htaccess configuration file. But I don't know if the same thing is possible with the IIS.

AddType application/x-httpd-parse .html
Action application/x-httpd-parse "/_cms/show.php"

This two lines in the .htaccess file tell Apache to pass any request for a file with the extension .html to the script called /_cms/show.php, which sends the actual content to the browser. Perhaps you can find a solution for IIS with this knowledge.

[macrost]

Fischer,
Uh oh, just checked my stats today and here's what's going on.
Session Details
IP Address 216.39.48.39
Reverse DNS buildrack17.sv.av.com
From / Via n/a
Origin Location Not Available
Time Spent 0 min
Hits / Kilobytes 1 / 7.44Kb
Browser Tag Scooter/3.3
Referring URL

Date and Time URL
2003-04-28 01:07:31 - user created
2003-04-28 01:07:31 /index.asp

Now after a little research Scooter is Altavista robot. Now my host is using live stats, and if someone is going through the site it will show what is downloaded to the clients computer such as images, and what they click on next. Does this look alright? It doesn't seem right to me.
Thanks!
Mac

[macrost]

Here's what a normal user looks like on my stats server.
Session Details
IP Address 12.218(took out my ip address ;-)
Reverse DNS 12-218
From / Via Att
Origin Location New Jersey, USA.
Time Spent 0 min
Hits / Kilobytes 24 / 10.86Kb
Browser Tag Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
Referring URL

Date and Time URL
2003-04-28 10:50:23 - user created
2003-04-28 10:50:23 /index.asp
2003-04-28 10:50:24 /template077.css
2003-04-28 10:50:26 /images/buttonhome.gif
2003-04-28 10:50:26 /images/buttonourclients.gif
2003-04-28 10:50:26 /images/toprow.jpg
2003-04-28 10:50:26 /images/buttonservices.gif
2003-04-28 10:50:26 /images/buttongallery.gif
2003-04-28 10:50:26 /images/designspot.gif
2003-04-28 10:50:26 /images/_blank.gif
2003-04-28 10:50:26 /images/buttoncontactus.gif
2003-04-28 10:50:26 /images/photo6.jpg
2003-04-28 10:50:26 /images/headerwelcome.gif
2003-04-28 10:50:26 /images/handg.gif
2003-04-28 10:50:26 /_blank.gif
2003-04-28 10:50:27 /images/kitchen.gif
2003-04-28 10:50:27 /images/photo7.jpg
2003-04-28 10:50:27 /images/hseparator1.gif
2003-04-28 10:50:27 /images/photo4.jpg
2003-04-28 10:50:27 /images/homesmall.gif
2003-04-28 10:50:27 /images/bottomrow.jpg
2003-04-28 10:50:27 /images/bathroom.gif
2003-04-28 10:50:27 /images/bedroom.gif
2003-04-28 10:50:27 /images/shadow1back.gif
2003-04-28 10:50:27 /images/vseparator1back.gif

[coconubuck]

Doesnt look good.....tread carefully.

[Fischerlaender]

A robot doesn't download graphic or css files. So I can't see anything wrong or surprising here.