Random content and SE's

[healer]

Ok...I've been doing promotion for a while now and have people ask me for advice from time to time, but wasn't sure about a recent question.

If a site uses a script that generates random content, such as that pulled from a database, how would this be treated by the SE's?

I know many engines, Google included, are sending spiders from stock IPs as well as borrowed IP's to detect variances in pages that are using cloaking scripts.

This makes me wonder how a site that generates random content with each visitor would fair against such a check by the SE's. Would the engines mistakingly see this site as cloaking since both requests would obviously get something different? Is there a threshold in variation that would need to be crossed?

Thanks for any thoughts,

Healer

[Brett_Tabke]

The search engines that don't have good linguistic analyzers won't notice it. However; those that do will hit it as a red flag. If there are 100 words on a page in "content zones" (paragraphs, or flat text), the se can analyze that structure. Sentences have well known structures and can be analyzed for construction. If the construction varies from acceptable limits, it will setoff a red flag.

Therefore, those that use generated content, do so with known sentence structure. Also, if you do have stock content, work it into the top of the page. Say, one good leading paragraph.

[healer]

Hi Brett,

I think what this guy is doing is generating an entire random page from a database of pages. I am pretty sure the content is linguistically correct, he's just generating a random page on each access. That is why I started wondering if an SE might mistake what he is doing for cloaking because they would most certainly see two different pages if they sent two separate spiders.

Any thoughts?