Direct Inclusion

some basic info?

[BrookTrout]

This is likely a topic that has been covered before. Does anyone know if Google has a direct inclusion program?

[jeremy goodrich]

Nope. Google is FREE :)

[BrookTrout]

Thanks for the quick reply! What if I have dynamically generated pages, ASPX platform? I am thinking of a service similar to Inktomi's IndexConnect. I would need to submit regularly

[Slade]

Are you saying that your content is updated frequently? If so, you're just going to have to convince googlebot of that, <someone please insert helpful info here>.

If you're just talking about having all your pages indexed, that shouldn't be too much of a problem, as long as the links stay mostly the same, and don't get renamed on the fly by the site.

[BrookTrout]

Exactly, the content and the URL's change frequently (daily). I don't have a problem with the homepage, but getting deeper in the site is a problem. Also, the URL string is puntuated with (?)which stops a lot of bots. IndexConnect will submit my URL's every 48 hrs automatically (via XML feed), but only to Inktomi powered engines. Any suggestions?

[jeremy goodrich]

Google will fully index your site, provided you have the PageRank, and that your site doesn't put up any barriers into the path of the crawler when GoogleBot comes around. Eg, you can't require cookies for the pages, etc.

For more information on what google can and can't index, I'd try reading their home page [google.com] :)

[Marcia]

BrookTrout, if you look through posts for the past several days, you'll see that a couple of people have spotted something that hints at the possibility it could happen with AdWords going all PPC pretty soon.

I assume you might be referring to AdWords rather than the regular Google index.

[edited by: Marcia at 9:07 pm (utc) on Sep. 10, 2002]

[Slade]

Help me make sure we're talking about the same thing...

Exactly, the content and the URL's change frequently (daily).

Are you saying that if I bookmark an article(/page/whatever) inside your site, tomorrow(or the next day) it won't be valid?

Or you have new fresh content every day, so the old stuff kind of moves off the page(like the recent post list)?

If the first, you're beyond my feeble knowledge...

If the second, and your old content should still be indexed, have your scripts make a 'past posts' page for each day(or timeperiod), and link to that oldpost-map always(so google can still find them).

[BrookTrout]

I am afraid it's the former. The URL will actually change. Thanks for the help though. My guess was that it would be a problem.