Dynamically Created Pages Can They Be Indexed?

Dynamically created web pages often cause problems with search engines. If your web pages are dynamically created, it's likely that many search engines may have difficulty indexing them.

Until now! Hello everyone. Yes its me again and I know it has been a while since my last letter but things have been a little hectic around here. But I'm back to address this most crucial issue.

Dynamiclly created pages are awesome, simply because of how fast they load and mainly because no one has to create them. They are generated by a program and they follow the style the webmaster assigns. But they were not at all searchable. At least that is what everyone thought.

Why do search engines have problems with dynamically created pages?

Many search engines don't like dynamically created pages because they might get in an infinite loop if they follow some dynamically created pages. Google had an official statement about this in its webmaster guidelines:
"If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a "?" character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few. Don't use "&id=" as a parameter in your URLs, as we don't include these pages in our index."

What did Google change?

This entry has been removed from Google's guidelines. Here's the official statement from Google's blog:
"Google now indexes" URLs that contain that parameter. So if your site uses a dynamic structure that generates it, don't worry about rewriting it -- we'll accept it just fine as is.

Keep in mind, however, that dynamic URLs with a large number of parameters may be problematic for search engine crawlers in general, so rewriting dynamic URLs into user-friendly versions is always a good practice when that option is available to you.
If you can, keeping the number of URL parameters to one or two may make it more likely that search engines will crawl your dynamic urls."

What does this mean to your web site?

If you have a dynamically created web site that uses only one or two parameters to create web pages then it's likely that Google can index your web pages without problems.

Now that is all good right? So should you go out and make your site a dynamiclly created one? Let us not get too hasty and foolish. Sure dynamiclly created pages are good but at the same time old school tactics still work best when it comes to SEO. Building a site the right way is what it is all about.

For that all I can say is get in touch with professionals. SEO guys know exactly what it takes to make a site look great, load fast, and get indexed. Trust Professionals like the guys at Position Front Page Suppling SEO Services to clients in Thailand.

Archie Glikakis
Position Front Page
SEO Consultant
http://positionfrontpage.com