Need opinions on best approach for SEO (aspx vs html pages)

aspx vs generated html catalog pages

[kas67]

I have currently been looking for a new 3rd party shopping cart, as our current custom software needs many updates to bring it up to were we would like it. I am looking at two carts each with very different methods to SEO. I would appreciate any feed back on the two methods.

The first shopping cart has a function that generates static html catalog pages from the dynamic product pages and a site map leading to the static pages.

The second shipping cart uses a aspx format. This they say is search engine readable. They also have a tool that converts the code from ntext to nvarchar or varchar, but reading about this option it seems to have problems.

We have to many products to be listing static pages one by one. We would like to target the major search engines. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated?

[jamesa]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld kas67.

Dynamic URLs can work as long as you watch out for IDs in the query string and query strings with many parameters. Best to avoid query strings all together - which can be done easily, even with aspx pages, using ISAPI rewrites.

There has been lots of discussion here about this. Check this out for starters: dynamic vs static [google.com].

Hope this helps.