Re: Google Problem

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2003

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 52939
interpreted = N
texte = what you need to do... well in my opinion anyway - is this.Take this page for example...http://www.mecumauction.com/searchresults.html?CART=1063751192297389&LSORT=2&SEARCH_DATA=FordThis is generated dynamically after doing a search by selecting only themake of car... in this case, ford. This page would be absolute dynamite ifgoogle could see if but it can't cause there are no links to it.What you should do is make a "site map" of all your Car Make search resultspages. This can be done by either writing them out statically and linking tothem eg /ford.html or just linking to this page (above) and passing the thename of the brand to search.Writing them out statically is quite easy because you already have the code.in fact you could probably just wrap the searchresults.html page in a[writefile file=/carmakes/[SEARCH_DATA].html][/writefile] context and itwould do all the work for you.Once you have your "site map" which is just a fancy word for a page full ofstatic links to pages within your website, submit the address of the sitemapto google. And that should get the robot trawling your site like nothingelse. :)There is NO TRICK to search engines. if your site is user friendly it willalso be search engine friendly. you have the content - thats the hard parttaken care of.hth----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian F. Gurney" To: "WebDNA Talk" Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 10:03 AMSubject: Google ProblemFor the past few months we've trying to get the site www.mecumauction.comconfigured so that Google will crawl dynamically generated web pages. Takinga sheet from the StoreBuilder playbook, we established a function where wecreate a series of static pages that link to one-another and have a refreshstatement and linked the first page of these static pages to the home page.We still cannot get the individual car pages to show up within a googlesearch. As an example the first static page is for "Mecum Auction -MN0603-9312 1964 Ford T-Bird" and a Google search on "1964 Ford T-BirdMecum" will yield nothing, as will searching for the GUID "MN0603-9312".Since our web logs show that 75%+ of searches that result in visitors comingto the web site are from Google, we think it might be a good idea for us toget this resolved. We also run about 3 dozen other sites wherein discoveringthe "Google trick" would really be a benefit. We're just stumped after a lotof tests and changes.Christian F. GurneyManaging DirectorKG InterDev, LLCcfgurney@kginterdev.com(515) 255-9351(515) 229-1969 Wireless(309) 418-1199 eFAX-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail toWeb Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: Google Problem ( "Andrew Simpson" 2003) Re: Google Problem ( "Andrew Simpson" 2003) Google Problem ( "Christian F. Gurney" 2003)

what you need to do... well in my opinion anyway - is this.Take this page for example...http://www.mecumauction.com/searchresults.html?CART=1063751192297389&LSORT=2&SEARCH_DATA=FordThis is generated dynamically after doing a search by selecting only themake of car... in this case, ford. This page would be absolute dynamite ifgoogle could see if but it can't cause there are no links to it.What you should do is make a "site map" of all your Car Make search resultspages. This can be done by either writing them out statically and linking tothem eg /ford.html or just linking to this page (above) and passing the thename of the brand to search.Writing them out statically is quite easy because you already have the code.in fact you could probably just wrap the searchresults.html page in a[writefile file=/carmakes/[SEARCH_DATA].html][/writefile] context and itwould do all the work for you.Once you have your "site map" which is just a fancy word for a page full ofstatic links to pages within your website, submit the address of the sitemapto google. And that should get the robot trawling your site like nothingelse. :)There is NO TRICK to search engines. if your site is user friendly it willalso be search engine friendly. you have the content - thats the hard parttaken care of.hth----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian F. Gurney" To: "WebDNA Talk" Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 10:03 AMSubject: Google ProblemFor the past few months we've trying to get the site www.mecumauction.comconfigured so that Google will crawl dynamically generated web pages. Takinga sheet from the StoreBuilder playbook, we established a function where wecreate a series of static pages that link to one-another and have a refreshstatement and linked the first page of these static pages to the home page.We still cannot get the individual car pages to show up within a googlesearch. As an example the first static page is for "Mecum Auction -MN0603-9312 1964 Ford T-Bird" and a Google search on "1964 Ford T-BirdMecum" will yield nothing, as will searching for the GUID "MN0603-9312".Since our web logs show that 75%+ of searches that result in visitors comingto the web site are from Google, we think it might be a good idea for us toget this resolved. We also run about 3 dozen other sites wherein discoveringthe "Google trick" would really be a benefit. We're just stumped after a lotof tests and changes.Christian F. GurneyManaging DirectorKG InterDev, LLCcfgurney@kginterdev.com(515) 255-9351(515) 229-1969 Wireless(309) 418-1199 eFAX-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail toWeb Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ "Andrew Simpson"

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