| Dynamic pages and the Search Engines By Clare | | | | This gives the search engines a |
| Lawrence 10th March 2003 Clare is the CEO of | | | | “doorway” to the dynamic pages. |
| Discount Domains Ltd a leading UK Domain name | | | | For larger sites there are a number of ways to |
| registration service. | | | | change the syntax of a dynamic URL so that it |
| Do search engines such as google penalise dynamic | | | | appears to be static: can be re-written as |
| pages? | | | | Index pages If your index page is dynamical |
| Dynamic pages are used to deliver content from a | | | | generated then it will be particularly difficult for |
| database to websites – the advantage being | | | | search engines to index your site. If possible you |
| that data can be updated and the contents of pages | | | | should avoid dynamically generated index pages |
| changed without the need to reload pages etc. | | | | Algorithms |
| Google publishes guidance notes on its site at [ and | | | | The search engines and Google in particular are |
| at | | | | getting better at indexing dynamic pages. |
| These say that dynamic pages are indexed but that | | | | Looking for more advice? |
| the Googlebot ( Google’s spider ) can | | | | We have built up an article bank on our site – |
| overwhelm dynamic sites and therefore the amount | | | | many from the leading specialists in each field, please |
| of pages indexed are limited | | | | feel free to browse them. The articles cover Domain |
| Google recommends:- “If you decide to use | | | | articles, Web hosting articles, Search engine articles, |
| dynamic pages (i.e. the URL contains a | | | | e-marketing and much more. |
| ‘?’ character) be aware that not every | | | | Conclusion, |
| search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as | | | | Dynamic pages are very useful to deliver content |
| static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short | | | | particularly if you wish to use a content management |
| and the number of them small. | | | | system. The Search engines do have some difficulties |
| How to get dynamic pages indexed | | | | with dynamic content, but there are ways to |
| There are ways to get dynamic pages indexed, if | | | | improve the chances of dynamic pages being |
| the site is relatively small, then create a site map, | | | | indexed. |
| which has static links to each of the dynamic pages. | | | | |