Google indexs pages fine that have a ? in them. Not all search engines do, so a lot of us want to be covered by all bases cause you never know where you could get a big surge in traffic. So Ben and others, www.erikv.com have created tags you can place in your application.cfm that will parse everything after .cfm so you can have category.cfm?ID=4 be category.cfm/ID/4. The tag will parse everything back and make ID a url variable equal to 4 so that coldfusion knows it is there. The search engine is stupid though, it will only be able to index what is in front of it, so you would have to have some way to show all of your other artciles if you want those to be indexed also.
Robert Everland III Dixon Ticonderoga Web Developer Extraordinaire -----Original Message----- From: Smith, Daron [PA] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 10:36 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Dynamic Pages and Search Engines I've read through the archives and Ben Forta's article on friendly URL's and I don't think anything addresses this issue. I could be wrong though. I'm working on a new site that's essentially all database driven, a typical url is category.cfm?ID=4 . If I want the contents of this page to be indexed with the necessary database data how would I go about doing that? Ben's article and other posts mention replacing the '?' with a '/' but isn't that just going to get the information that is in the cfm file without the db data? My query needs the '4' to retrieve the relevant content, without that there is no content on the page worth searching. How does the spider know that there should be a '4' on the end of the query string? And that there should also be 15 other category identifiers that go with the category.cfm page? How do I get spiders to crawl these kinds of pages in their 'content filled' stages not just the static text. Thanks for any help, Daron J. Smith Web Developer PSEA [EMAIL PROTECTED] 717-255-7141 1-800-944-PSEA (7732) x 7141 Please note new email address (old one with 'mail' will soon expire) FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
