Yeah I went the stealth route. The basic idea is check for user agent (Yeah I know it can be faked) or IP. Then redirect bots to a giant index page. On this page you can do ...html?something=abc. It has worked reasonably well. I have had issues with trying to redirect bots via cflocation. Basically it wasn't working, not sure why. The bots just wouldn't take the re-direction and kept producing 404s. Maybe it was just the whacked way I was doing it.
I think if you give bots a link they can follow they will, they just won't supply they're own input. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 4:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [CFTALKTor] CFUN 2K As per the search engine finding dynamice pages. What if you had a 200 member directory system where each account was referenced by ".../index.cfm?accountID=54" ? A search engine is not going to find all the accounts, unless there are specific links to them in your site. I read somehere that the best thing to do is create a 'shadow index' (or some term) where by one page would house all the static links to your accounts so that an engine would index each account (54 to 2000 or whatever. I would like to hear if anyone has used such a scheme or tell us what has worked for you? Ben > > From: "Gustavo Jabbaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2002/05/09 Thu PM 06:14:56 GMT > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [CFTALKTor] CFUN 2K > > major search engine spiders (google,altavista, etc.) do not have a problem with query strings. > > gustavo > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mike > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 2:07 PM > Subject: Re: [CFTALKTor] CFUN 2K > > > Hi Erik > > Take a look here. > > http://cfhub.com/contributions/SES/ > > Mike > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Erik Fenkell > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 12:15 PM > Subject: [CFTALKTor] CFUN 2K > > > Hey Everybody, > > 2 questions: > > 1- I would like any advice on search engine optimization for dynamic webpages. I know that engines have trouble indexing links with '?' in them ie. > index.cfm?fuseaction=pleaseindexme. Are there any custom tags or processes to help solve this problem ie. making links look like directories instead of url variables. or anything else. > > > 2 - Is anybody driving down to CFUN 2K that might want someone to share expenses with? > > Thanks a bunch! > Erik > > - You are subscribed to the CFUGToronto CFTALK ListSRV. This message has been posted by: Steve Budan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe, Please Visit and Login to http://www.CFUGToronto.org/ Manager: Kevin Towes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.CFUGToronto.org/ This System has been donated by Infopreneur, Inc. (http://www.infopreneur.net)
