Is this feasible?

[Shawn]

I'm developing a system that is all database driven. The
problem I find my self running into is that it will not be
able to be indexed by search engines. I am aware of third
party commercial products to make my dynamic pages static,
but I thought of another solution.

It is a content management system, the user controls each
page which comes from a database.

Now is it feasible (in terms of CPU, time, etc.) to write
the results of the changes/additions to a text file after
it is written the database then including the text file in
the page opposed to the database so that it could be
indexed?

Any thoughts would be helpful. Thanks a million!!!

[grw]

Dynamic pages can be indexed.

"Shawn" <programming@jards.com> wrote in message
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> I'm developing a system that is all database driven. The
> problem I find my self running into is that it will not be
> able to be indexed by search engines. I am aware of third
> party commercial products to make my dynamic pages static,
> but I thought of another solution.
>
> It is a content management system, the user controls each
> page which comes from a database.
>
> Now is it feasible (in terms of CPU, time, etc.) to write
> the results of the changes/additions to a text file after
> it is written the database then including the text file in
> the page opposed to the database so that it could be
> indexed?
>
> Any thoughts would be helpful. Thanks a million!!!

[Aaron Bertrand - MVP]

> Dynamic pages can be indexed.

Not by several search engines, last time I checked.

[Shawn]

Dynamic meaning database driven, not Flash so it can be
indexed for search engines like google?

>-----Original Message-----
>Dynamic pages can be indexed.
>
>"Shawn" <programming@jards.com> wrote in message
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>> I'm developing a system that is all database driven.

The

>> problem I find my self running into is that it will not

be

>> able to be indexed by search engines. I am aware of

third

>> party commercial products to make my dynamic pages

static,

>> but I thought of another solution.
>>
>> It is a content management system, the user controls

each

>> page which comes from a database.
>>
>> Now is it feasible (in terms of CPU, time, etc.) to

write

>> the results of the changes/additions to a text file

after

>> it is written the database then including the text file

in

>> the page opposed to the database so that it could be
>> indexed?
>>
>> Any thoughts would be helpful. Thanks a million!!!

>
>
>.
>

[Ken Schaefer]

Which search engines?

The ones that count ([url]www.google.com[/url] etc) certainly can (up to a
point)...otherwise most of Microsoft.com's site wouldn't appear in any of
their indexes...

Cheers
Ken

"Aaron Bertrand - MVP" <aaron@TRASHaspfaq.com> wrote in message
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: > Dynamic pages can be indexed.
:
: Not by several search engines, last time I checked.
:
:
:

[Michael C. Gates]

ASP Pages are static. The content is sent statically to the browser, so how
does the crawler know it is dynamic other than that it's extension? What is
the crawler going to do? Refresh and check for content changes?

A true dynamic page would be something written with javascript or something,
like 'document.form.value="whatever";'

Michael C. Gates


"Shawn" <programming@jards.com> wrote in message
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> I'm developing a system that is all database driven. The
> problem I find my self running into is that it will not be
> able to be indexed by search engines. I am aware of third
> party commercial products to make my dynamic pages static,
> but I thought of another solution.
>
> It is a content management system, the user controls each
> page which comes from a database.
>
> Now is it feasible (in terms of CPU, time, etc.) to write
> the results of the changes/additions to a text file after
> it is written the database then including the text file in
> the page opposed to the database so that it could be
> indexed?
>
> Any thoughts would be helpful. Thanks a million!!!
>

[grw]

Google certainly can, they feed Yahoo.
Thats more than acceptable to me ;-)


"Aaron Bertrand - MVP" <aaron@TRASHaspfaq.com> wrote in message
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> > Dynamic pages can be indexed.

>
> Not by several search engines, last time I checked.
>
>
>