promoting dynamic pages

content vs backward links

[buttercup25]

I have a high ranking for certain generic keywords but now want to broaden the spectrum of terms I appear highly for. I have created separate pages dedicated to each of the terms I want to appear for but this does not seem to be enough (5th page google) do I need to create backward links containing the keyterm I want to appear for, or should content be enough?

Ally

[panic]

You need links backlinks, unless you want them to be labeled as doorway pages.

-p

[Brett_Tabke]

In the Static vs Dynamic debate, Google is just a tiny part of the bigger issue.

Static URLs:
- Encourage people to link to you.
We pretty much know that people are less likely to link to a dynamic page by a wide margin. No one trusts dynamic urls to remain the same (the url is ui).

- Allow proxy caches to cache you.
Many proxies will not cache dynamic urls. Thus, you reduce bandwidth to what is essentially static content anyway.

- Allow browsers to keep static caches.
Same is true for browsers.

- Slows down rogue bots.
If you have any sort of session id in your dynamic strings, you know rogue bots can spend hours upon hours toying with the urls. They can beat your site to death trying to dl it.

I still think that it is wise to switch your dynamic to static any where and every where you can. A static url site will always work better for all concerned than a dynamic url based site - including Google.

[incywincy]

unless of course you use apache's mod rewrite to make them look static.

[skipfactor]

Dynamic URLs:
- Discourage people trying to steal your stuff
- Can make every page 'fresh' in a few clicks

[Yidaki]

Content is fine but just a (although important) piece of the cake.
Create / get backward links? Sounds good.

>dynamic?

I never link to dynamic urls.
Reason enough to make my own urls static.

[buttercup25]

thanks everyone, I didn't actually mention using dynamic pages anywhere in my post, did I?!?
anyway I'll definitely try the backwards links approach

ally

[skipfactor]

>>I didn't actually mention using dynamic pages anywhere in my post, did I?!?

It's the title of your post:

promoting dynamic pages

Work on authoring better titles for your posts. Some of us think like search engines, and you even tricked Brett. :)

[panic]

Work on authoring better titles for your posts. Some of us think like search engines, and you even tricked Brett. :)

He didn't fool me :D

-p

[plasma]

and you even tricked Brett

Brett is my favorite User Agent =)

[TeofenGL]

Just the usual "this how we do things" bit here: (having nothing to do with the initial Q, possibly, but along the lines of the ensuing discussion)

We've developed a chaching setup where our thousands of dynamic pages are stored statically until they are updated or the snapshot expires.

This was initially implemented for server overhead reasons.

[panic]

We've developed a chaching setup where our thousands of dynamic pages are stored statically until they are updated or the snapshot expires.

Where'd you find that?