At 07:17 PM 6/23/98 -0800, you wrote:
>I need some assistance please, folks, before I start spinning b.s. and
>paint myself into a corner I can't get out of. I don't know much about
>static vs. dynamic pages, and just received this inquiry from a client:
>
>"What about static vs. dynamic pages? I've read that the search engines
>won't pick up dynamic pages, and that many smaller ecommerce programs/hosts
>don't allow for static pages. Do you know how Shopsite/First Host works in
>that respect?"
>
>Am I correct in assuming that the only page in a commerce site that needs
>to be dynamic would be the shopping cart/order form page (which wouldn't
>need to be indexed by search engines), and that the rest of the site would
>be the usual static HTML pages?
>
>While we're on the subject of search engines, I have another question. This
>client insists on frames for their site. What are the precautions that I
>need to take to make sure they function properly with search engines?
>
>thanks, Suz
UltimateTV ( http://www.UltimateTV.com/ ) is a massivly
"generated" site (tons of SSI) and it gets indexed. The only
thing that you must do is make sure the "good" text is able to get searched.
As long as the page is generated for all user agents, it should index fine.
Matt Soffen
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