[thelist] Dynamic homepage and search engines.

[Ben Phillips]

> I assume it's fairly well accepted by now that to get a good
> page rank on the spider search engines, your homepage content
> should contain spider-readable text with your keywords, etc.
> So if I wanted (at least part
> of) my homepage to be dynamically generated from a database,
> what would my best approach be?  I was thinking about an
> iFrame or iLayer, but I'm a little reticent to use these.  If
> the suffix of my homepage is .php or .asp but contains
> standard text outside of the <% %> would that be enough to
> satisfy the s.e.?

the spider can't tell if your page is static or dynamic.

the spider requests the page from your server, the page is then
processed, and the scripts in the page are run. *then* the page is sent
to the spider. so the content between your <% %> tags is seen just like
ordinary content and the tags aren't sent at all.

if you request a dynamic page and view the source, then you will see
that this is the case. no need to worry.

benji
inchima.com