SIGIA-L: Summary: Invisible Web & Content Management Systems

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Greetings!

I received some great feedback on how to approach dynamic pages and search
engines. The following are the responses. Thank you to everyone who
responded.

Thanks,
Lisa
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For instance, we have a database of publications on one of our sites. The
index page for this is a static "What's New" page with all the navigation to
publications categories clearly marked. We create (and regularly update) a
static version of the entire database for spiders to crawl. The URL for
this is a static mirror of the live, static index page. (Am I making
sense?) So, a search engine won't provide users with a link to the specific
document, unfortunately, but it will give them a link to something pretty
close.

~Stacy Surla

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fortunately with dynamic content comes XML and metadata (usually) which goes

a long way toward indexing sites. some content management systems will
publish this index information, as it is updated, from the database it lives

in to the public site, to help search engines pick up pertinent and
contextual information about the site's contents.

a different question to ask, too, is: how many sites are serving up pure
dynamic content these days? many dynamic delivery services provided by
content management systems can be tweaked to cache rendered pages that
aren't dynamic at all (this is the "baked" versus "fried" theory). this is
more efficient for the server.

ramble ramble,
Rena

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SearchEngineWatch has a whole section on dynamic URLs and URL
rewriting, for paid subscribers only:
<http://www.searchenginewatch.com/subscribers/more/dynamic.html>

WebMasterBase has an article on URL rewriting (Linux, PHP, Apache):
<http://www.webmasterbase.com/article/485>

Also, Netmechanic has something at
<http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol4/promo_no3.htm>

Avi

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