How to Optimize Dynamic Pages??

Hello All.

I hope everyone had a merry xmas and happy new year.

My question is this:

I have a program designed where my clients can build their websites dynamically through an admin panel I have created. The client website only exists when they enter the URL, as it is generated on the fly once the URL is enetered. This is done through virtual directories.

I have found Google cannot pick up these sites no matter how well they are optimized due to the fact that the actual URL/DOMAIN does not exist and their is no IP attached to the domain.

How can I get these sites to get indexed and listed on Google? Is the only way around this to create one static page per site which Google could index and rank accordingly?

Thanks!
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Here you go, read: Dynamic URLs In The Eyes Of A Search Engine.

keep in mind, its better to use keywords in the URL (I do this now) and separate them by hyphens (-).

That is about it.

I've been using underscores _
Are hyphens and underscores equal in the terms of the search engines, or would it be better to chose one over the other?

hyphens are actually much much better. a hyphen in Google's mind is a separator. So if you have computer_desktop, the search engines will read it as one word. But if you have computer-desktop, search engines will read it as two words.

Now how important are keyword in URLs is a different questions and varies by search engine.

URL rewriting

Mod rewrite for Apache or ISAPI rewrite for windows will do the trick at masking your URLs that are complex. However I also think you may have a DNS or hosting situation. Did you say these are website clients that are signing up for a subdomain? Are you using any type of redirects? Or are you using virtual name based hosting? I am not sure why your pages would not be indexed at all unless they are not real pages. Even a totaly dynamic site can be indexed fairly well with out changing the URL. Google and Inktomi both can index upto 2 variables in URL. If you are passing many variables or have a complex URL you should consider rewriting or masking the URL. But I think you should look into the URLs that are having issues, where do those URLs really go?

Dear Sir

I can include meta tags in main pages i mean .asp but how i can include meta tags in which id passing?


thanks and regards?

stymie is correct.
I really do not see why people seem to think there is any real differene between "static" and "Dynamic"... you are still putting content on the internet, still using code and tags and content etc.

Theo nly differene is you are not manually building each page - it does that automatically.

If anything, a Dynamic site should be easier, asyou can figure you're pattern, put in the tags... and then add the content.
The tags are built using your content every time... no editing each page for optimisation etc.

My site has hundreds of dynamic pages. Every time someone asks a veterinary question I dynamically generate a title and URL for it.

However, be sure that these newly created pages are linked to from somewhere else otherwise Google will never pick them up.

I have a page that summarizes my question archive and each question on the summary is linked to the dynamic page.

That being said, Google doesn't pick up all of the pages-I'd say about 50% are indexed. I could probably get more indexed if I spent time building up deep links from other sites directly to those dynamic pages though.

Oh my! I just realized this thread was originally from 2004! I guess the OP has resolved the problem by now. LOL!