Dynamically Genterated Keywords

Benefits of generating metatags from a database

[BikeMan]

Our website allows the user to locate technical details of an item by querying a database and generates the result page using ASP

Would it make sense to generate keywords using the database for the results page. The same page would return different keywords for different models.

Would this prove to be an advantage, disadvantage or have no effect when it comes to search engine optimisation?

[Woz]

Bikeman,

The initial problem is that your one page will have a dynamic URL, ie., page.asp?item=67, which most engine do not spider. Google seems to spider these pages and may index them if you site has a high PR and a few pages have been seen in Inktomi. Other engines have real problems with dynamic URLs and do not spider them.

Having said that, it would be worth setting up dynamic keywords if it is not too much trouble on the chance that you might get indexed. I tend to set up individual pages for each product or category, and generate keyword variations for additional iteration of the same page. I find the number of referals from the additional iterations is low, but worth the small amount of effort needed to set the system up.

You may increase referrals by generating the keywords, but you defintely won't if you don't.

Onya
Woz

[Damian]

Maybe you can work the main keywords into the title tag , alt tags and heading tags instead of (or next to) the meta-keywords tag.
If you use mod_rewrite to get rid of the dynamic adresses it will definetly help.

[BikeMan]

Thanks for the input.

What is a mod_rewrite?

[Woz]

mod_rewrite is an Apache Web Server command used on *nix servers. You can use ASP in *nix with Chillisoft installed but I have not tried it..

Pure ASP is run on IIS servers where mod_rewrite is not available.

Onya
Woz

[BikeMan]

Am on NT hosting and am not looking to change at the moment.

Currently using the post method for all my forms. Should I guess that is no good with Google and rewrite my code with the GET method?

Would add quite a bit to the number of pages on the site and backlinks as well.

Thanks in advance.