Making a dynamic site static for the SE's

Thinking about the strategy of such a move

[Travoli]

Ok here is an interesting question...

Our site is largely dynamically generated. We have lots of content that the
SE's cannot get to. My boss feels that the SE's should be able to get to
that information, and we should work on a method that would allow them to
spider the content. Specifically, we would make the pages static with a
type of "browse" function. Now, that being said, we have many pages of
content that contain similar keywords. What would you recommend is the best
way (or "no way") to get this stuff out there? I really do not want to get
us banned.

[agerhart]

There are a bunch of ways that this can be done.....the question is how much work do you want to put into it.

One way is to have a script that takes all of the dynamic content and turns it into static content once a day for the purpose of feeding the SE's. I remember this one when I was trying to think of ways to optimize some of the sites that I have that use ASP with ? in the URL

Another way, which alot more work, is to do it all by hand. Take all of the content for each keyword and put it into static pages. Not such a nice task.

I am sure that there are more options out there.....just my $.02

[Travoli]

thanks agerhart. Yes we would be implementing a script and doing it once per day like you said. The problem would be the possible multiple listings for a search result. We use the same template on all of our pages. I don't want to make any SE's mad :)

[Travoli]

Say for example that you sell used bicycles, and you had a warehouse of used bicycles. You have a search on your site to return ads about certain models of bike, certain frame sizes, etc...

SE's cannot see your individual used bike information. If you set up a "browse" function and made each of your used bicycle ads static,indexable pages, wouldn't you run the possibility of your pages coming up multiple times in a search result for "BMX bike", therefore upsetting your competition and getting your site removed?

This is basically the heart of the question.