Handling Dynamic Web Pages

Not all websites are static. There are many websites that are dynamic and database driven as per the requirements of the webmasters. But these dynamic websites create problems while indexing their pages. Earlier it was believed that dynamic, non HTML pages will not be indexed by the search engines. But times have changed, technology has improved, and so has the capability of the search engines to index all sorts of pages, whether it is .htm, .html, .asp, .aspx, .php, or any other extension. The idea is that links from other websites pointing to your website make you get spidered by the search engines.

Another problem with dynamic pages is that in case of pages returning results from search queries cannot be indexed sufficiently by the search engines because these pages have dynamic content. The reason being that a search engine spiders a page by fetching its url and then parsing the page's content or code behind the page. And when the page is dynamic, the search engine spider's effort to view a page is invalid as page requests of dynamic pages have to be followed by some information.

The solution to this problem is to use the 'mod-rewrite' module and rename all the dynamic pages into something short, understandable, and clear. The most important thing is to plan out everything in the beginning before designing the site layout. Otherwise you are going to spend more time revising, redesigning, and reworking on the old design, instead of concentrating on the promotion or marketing of the website.

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