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For one of my eCommerce clients I've made a public product feedback page (similar to a guestbook) that uses ASP and a database. So far, we have about 60 feedback comments (99% raves!) and I expect to get at least twice that many by this time next year.
Right now, the ASP and database folders are disallowed in ROBOTS.TXT, but I could allow them and use the ASP to add key words to each comment header. The product name is already treated this way, added once in each comment header. And most commentors also mention the product name, and sometimes one of our keys.
Would so many keys on one page get us in trouble?
TIA...
And you want to include a dynamically generated meta keyword tag for each page?
If that's what you want to do, I don't think It will cause you any problems. But I also don't think it will help much either. The keyword you insert need to also be words that show up on the page, so you would need to be able to extract words from the comments posted by your users.
All the keys would be on one long page, as part of the text headings between the text comments, in plain HTML.
If I put one key word in each comment heading, there would now be 60 identical keys on that one page. And one more for each new comment.
The HTML page is generated by ASP from a database, so it is all standard HTML and would be available to robots that were "allowed".
I just "viewed source" on the web page in question to be sure it was all rendered as plain HTML.
The database/ASP does not generate a new page for each comment (record) in the database, it just inserts each record into one page. with the identical text headings above each record.
Like:
(record 1)
(Header 1) Where did you learn about our product (new key in here)?
(Comment) I found it in my local drugstore.
(Header 2) Did it work for you?
(Comment) This is the greatest thing since sliced bread!
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(next record)...
(Header 1) Where did you learn about our product (new key in here)?
(Comment) My neice recommended it to me.
etc.....
I think I already know the answer to my question, just checking my conclusion.
My thought is that 60 identical key words in HTML on a page would be considered spam, no matter how they were generated.
Thanks for your response...
Look at what our customers think of <a href="comments.asp?product=blue+widgets">blue widgets</a>
But they have only one product.
Your suggestion makes good sense though, for sites with more than one product.
