That form won't be crawled. Therefore the detail won't be found.
If, however, you also add some hyperlinked queries that get most of your database, it will. Those hyperlinks would be of the form:
http://www.mysite.com/taf/searchme.taf?_function=list&flavor=vanilla http://www.mysite.com/taf/searchme.taf?_function=list&flavor=chocolate
the list would have hyperlinks to the details and presto, you're visible to the robots.
I have a database I don't want crawled and one that I do. The one I don't is only accessible by a form, and the one I do is by form or by hyperlink. It's working so far. I can see my entire product line in google.
On Mar 5, 2004, at 9:10 AM, Fogelson, Steve wrote:
Roland,
What do you mean by a form in front of them?
Thanks
Steve Fogelson Internet Commerce Solutions
-----Original Message----- From: Roland Dumas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 11:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Search Engine Friendly ISAPI Filter
I'm looking in Google and can see that they've catalogued pages that are my item records in a database. Lots of them. Takes two search arguments to get to them. You'll get crawled and catalogued on all pages that are hyperlinked.
If you put a form up front, crawlers will stop, though. If you want your stuff in the search engines, then you need to have a path to get to them by hyperlinks alone.
On Mar 5, 2004, at 7:55 AM, Scott Cadillac wrote:
Sorry Steve, but something doesn't smell right.
I'd get some proof about such a statement, or do some research, before spending money and rewriting your site.
Try http://www.webmasterworld.com
Almost sounds like a scam to me.
My 3 cents....
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-----Original Message----- From: "Fogelson, Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Witango User Group (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 08:55:29 -0600 Subject: Witango-Talk: Search Engine Friendly ISAPI Filter
The guy that does search engine placement for me has suggested one of the following to make dynamic pages appear to be html pages. Evidently with the recent changes with Yahoo and others, they are going to give less priority to dynamic pages.
I have included the links to products to evidently rewrite the url's on the fly. Any comments?
http://www.isapirewrite.com/ http://www.soft32.com/download_12343.html
Steve Fogelson
Internet Commerce Solutions
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