what does it mean by 500 pages website

[ferhanz]

I have read a lot of times people saying "400 Pages website", does it mean static or is it like having 400 records in your db of articles and each one is displaying by a article.php?id=1 URL...

confused

[Eltiti]

IMO, it could mean both! (Having static URLs, i.e., without parameters, would make it easier for the SE to spider the pages; but some sites actually have dynamic URLs "internally" that are "rewritten" to look like static URLs --so they'd have 400 pages in both senses.)

[Ossifer]

More than half of my pages on my 420 page site are generated this way. The pages live in a database, and URL rewriting rules make them look like /dir/article/number.aspx, even though they don't live at that location.

By going to /dir/article.aspx?id=number, i get the same thing, but I don't want that to be used to allow the spiders to find the pages easier.

Works great, and it's very easy to update the database from other locations, so I can keep the pages much more up to date.