[thelist] Tricking the Search Engines

Eric Vitiello evolt at perceive.net
Fri Mar 8 09:09:01 CST 2002


-- Ben Phillips [Fri, 8 Mar 2002 14:53:28 -0000]:
>>>
>>>It seems like .cfm and .asp are harder to get searched.
>>>
>>
>>not so sure about that....
>>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=furniture+projects
>
>google, while being the best, isn't the only search engine...
>
>i don't know for sure, but i wouldn't say that *every* search engine
>ranks non .html pages the same. i'd love to be proved wrong though.

Make sure that your URLs do not look like a dynamic page.  Most search engines do not index dynamic pages.

you could format your urls like:

http://www.domain.com/thisasp/variable/parameter/variable/parameter/


the search engine will then think that it is calling a static page.

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Eric Vitiello
Perceive Designs
<www.perceive.net>




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