what is dynamic content and is it useful

[irishaff]

Hi guys,

thanks for all the help so far, since subscribing to this service I have learned so much.

Im still on web design 101 however . I am getting to the point where I keep changing my content and have reasonable SEO results. I note from some of the larger sites that beat me on certain terms they seem to be using some kind of changing pages . I have a few questions:

1. Is it possible to rank for more keywords with dynamic content? ( or is this the same as having many static pages )

2. Where would be a good place to start with dynamic content. I use dreamweaver as my design program.

I can use templates for the pages and would like to not only serve content to the pages but ensure the title and tags are inserted properly on each page.

any advice , am I on or off the mark with my direction.

thank you.

[Craig_F]

irishaff,

I think you are a little off base. In general, dynamic content is more difficult to rank well with due to the methods used to serve the content.

You should really only think of using dynamic content as a method to help you update and maintain a site, not as a helpful tool for rankings.

If you are new to all this working with static pages is probably your best option. Search engines love them, and they are easy to work with when you are getting your feet wet.

[Maxie]

Investigate how and where those sites use those keywords, they may re-appear several times in the text on the page for example.
Imho It has nothing to do with the page being dynamic or static.

Max

[anchordesk]

If you can serve dynamic content in meaningful ways to static (appearing) urls, google might just live on your site as your pages would be fresh, different, and ever changing day to day. Depends too, though, on what content you actually serve.

Draw from a pool of similar keywords which are absorbed into the content. When Google indexes your page and finds a different twist to your keywords, it does not immediately drop yesterday's keywords not found in your content today, rather it adds the newer keywords. Tomorrow, it will find a few more keywords, some repeated from days past. Your page will become indexed with more keywords then you serve per page view. Just keep it fresh and interesting ... users like that too.

[irishaff]

thanks for the replies folks .

Anchordesk, understand why what you are talking of would work . I think Ill try experiment on a homepage or something...