Virtual Domains & Dynamic Content

virtual domain dynamic content

[csdpdx]

Hello everyone,
I just posted this question in the General forum, but I now realize it might belong in this forum instead. Anyway, I have a big question here that I hope someone could help me with.

I am planning on having a client of mine give me a wild card entry into thier Domain Name Server. This basically means that all virtual domains will point to my IP address. For example, I will then be able to create many virtual domains on my machine.

bob.companyname.com
sue.companyname.com
tom.companyname.com
and so on..........

Each of these virtual domains would map to the same web application (I'm using asp.net). The application would then read the virtual part of the domain and generate dynamic content based on what was returned. So for example: bob.companyname.com would return a page that contains all of bob's information.

Will this type of setup hinder my ability to get each of these virtual domains indexed by the popular search engines?

Will there be any special actions that need to be taken in order to get these virtual domains indexed?

Thanks,
csdpdx

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Nope. It'll work like a charm.

[DoppyNL]

Works perfectly.

Only problem that might occur is if you serve the same content on each of those subdomains, then SE's may penilize all but one, or all those subdomains because of duplicate content.

I use this method to serve 20 website's with a content management system :)
Never had any problems getting listed.

[csdpdx]

Great! Thanks! I was worried that the * domain plus the dynamic content would throw it all off. Now my fears are put to rest!

Over 50% of the content will be different from user to user, so the SEs shouldn't penalize me :)