[thelist] Searchable dynamic content

[Bill Haenel]

Thanks to all.

BH

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> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Bill Haenel wrote:
>
> > I've asked a bit about this before, and have looked around for
> books, etc.
> > Mostly what I've found has been related to URL interpretation.
> However, I
> > don't think that has much relevance in this case:
> >
> > The content of our new fancy-wancy dynamically updated news
> page does not
> > seem to be
> > searchable by, say, Google. The page is located at this address:
> >
> > http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news.php
> >
> > Suggestions? (Wide open, I know, but I'm just wondering where to begin)
>
> Yowza - if you want searchability, you're going to need transcripts (or
> at least summaries) of the broadcasts.
>
> The key is to get them linked... which is the best reason to have a
> sitemap.
>
> Sitemap > News > Broadcast Archives > Program Summaries
>   (for one example)
>
> and you could in this particular case have a similar trail except that the
> homepage replaces the sitemap.
>
> You can then use mod_rewrite, ErrorDocument, or whatever else suits your
> fancy to actually serve the content... but it's gotta be something that a
> crawler's gonna understand.  *grin*
>
>
> Regards,
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