[thelist] How do you build dynamic pages?

[Tom Dell'Aringa]

--- Dan McCullough <dmccullough at garnethill.com> wrote:
> (http://www.garnethill.com/cgi-bin/gh/item.jsp?ItemID=0140 to
> http://www.garnethill.com/cgi-bin/gh/item.jsp/ItemID/0140) you can

The problem isn't necessarily that the URI has a get string. Its the
usability of it as well as the length of it (the extra directory).
Your solution just reformats the URL but doesn't address the problem
(although I see what you were getting at). What I want to do is
remove the extra directory. (in your example, /gh/).

> Also you could also do something along the lines of having a
> subsite,
> where you have keyword intensive information pages (flat HTML) with
> links, visable only by the search engines, and those links would
> redirect anyone clicking in from a search engine to the correct
> page.
> Spiders come into the index page, and see a list of links and meta
> tags and whatever keyword specific content on that page, while any
> browser would see a javascript redirect and would be taken to the 
> correct page.

Not to get off on a search-engine tangent here... but I think some of
that is against Google policy. Plus, unless its a 301 redirect -
Google will go AWAY from the page and not index it. What you want is
your "correct page" to be optimized correctly and you don't have to
worry about search engine "tricks" that end up backfiring, etc. You
want relevant content that wins the term for the specific topic. Plus
JS redirect don't work so good for people who have JS disabled :)

Tom

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