Dynamic meta tags

Hi

I have someone developing a site for me and i and they are new to SEO. The site is php and mysql driven. They are thinking of dynamically outputting meta tags as the page loads ...different tags for each page. This allows quick and easy changes to meta tags from a central database. But, i wondered whether this would cause SEs to not "see" the tags. Anyone know the answer or if there is a specific way you would need to do it in order to be "seen"?

Thanks
Ashley

Welcome to the forum!

With php its simple: in the head tag (on a php file) add <? include(".meta"); ?>
and in the .meta file add the code.

The Search Engines will see the tags whether the pages are static or dynamic.
Google downlaods (like we all do) static versions of these dynamic pages as they are server side and parsed before we receive them.
The only way Google can tell if its dynamic if it includes a ? and variables or has a common dynamic page extension like php or asp

Dan

OK ..thanks for that. And the .meta file will have say


<title>Web site hosting - shared server</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="hosting, website, dsl" />
<meta name="description" content="We offer the most amazing hosting for your web site." />


and from what i can gather, something different on each page of the site right?

Thanks

Ashley