I think the point Roger B made is that many search engines look for key
words in the url BEFORE meta tags or content. The fact that fuseaction
appears in every goodforsaken url on your site means that search engines
will deem searches less relevant than if the url was
www.csxi.com/content/index.cfm/eCommerce rather than
www.csxi.com/content/index.cfm?fuseAction=eCommerce.
I personally think it looks better to IMHO but Im sure that isn't the point
of SES :)
--
Gavin Lilley
Internet / Intranet Developer
http://halesowen.ac.uk
-----Original Message-----
From: Russ Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 22 March 2001 13:28
To: Fusebox
Subject: RE: Fusebox and Search Engines
I don't believe google has a problem indexing fuseboxed sites at all. For
instance,
go to www.google.com and search on csxi. The second result on the list has
this caption.
<snip>
.... At CSXI, we offer customers a wide range of electronic options to
provide 24-hour-a-day
service for each step of the transportation process. From ordering to ...
www.csxi.com/content/index.cfm?fuseAction=eCommerce - 20k - Cached - Similar
pages
</snip>
Notice it shows the full url path with the fuseAction. I didnt even use SES
on this site anywhere. Of course this is with google who's indexing
algorithm's are far more advanced than a lot of other search engines.
Just an observation.
Russ
-----Original Message-----
From: Roger B. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 7:58 AM
To: Fusebox
Subject: RE: Fusebox and Search Engines
> Does anyone know what issues relating to search engines and the fusebox
> methodology?
Luke,
Short answer: Go to Google and search for "fuseaction".
Longer answer: The only issue is one shared by any dynamically-generated
site using query strings in the URL... some spiders won't follow your links.
Which is where SES (index.cfm/fuseaction/dothis/date/today) URLs come in.
> My understanding is that there could be problems because the
> use of a main dsp_header.cfm template means that there is only one page
> which can be indexed.
The use of a static header won't prevent other pages from being indexed,
assuming that the bulk of content on a given page is unique. It wouldn't
hurt to generate META descriptions and TITLE tags on the fly, though, just
to increase the relevancy of search results.
--
Roger
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