>>The #1 thing to remember about "dynamic" pages is the URL -- if it has a
>>"?" in it, it'll stop the Search Engine dead.
At 11:39 PM 6/23/98 -0700, Kathy wrote:
>WRONG!
Hmmm....Maybe your in-house version of InfoSeek's search is customized to
allow this. Here's the bible I go by (www.searchenginewatch.com):
(from http://www.searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/tips.html )
>Dynamic Doorblock: Generating pages via CGI or database-delivery? Expect
>that some of the search engines won't be able to index them. Consider
creating
>static pages whenever possible, perhaps using the database to update the
>pages, not to generate them on the fly. Also, avoid symbols in your URLs,
>especially the ? symbol. Search engines tend to choke on it.
It could be that InfoSeek just happens to love the ? symbol, but all the
other SEs don't -- but I'd think that Danny Sullivan (Mr. Searchenginewatch
himself) would know this and would say so. (On the other hand, maybe he
just hasn't put that specific bit of info on the SEW site.)
I'll check in my book from WebPosition and the Search Engine Secrets book
(Planet Ocean) and see if they say anything any differently, but my advice
is to do as search engine watch says and avoid pages with ? symbols in the
URLs.
--Tamra Heathershaw-Hart
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