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[Richard]

I am building a website based on the Community Starter Kit, so the data is
pulled from a SQL Server db, including the keywords for each page's Keyword
meta tag. Basically a property is filled in within the page's Keyword meta
tag with the keywords when the page is called. There is only one page that
does all the "work", rewriting itself depending on what page is needed.

Because there is only one working page, I don't want to hardcode the
keywords, because then every page will have those same keywords. That is why
I'm calling them from the db. I'm wondering if this will be an issue for
search site's robots. I'm not familiar with how they work, so will they only
pick up the name of the embedded property, or will the page load as normal
with the keywords when the robot attempts to search it? I guess I'm asking if
there is a way to tell the robots to call the url first so the keywords will
load prior to the robot searching it.

[Brian Farnhill (MCP VB.NET)]

Hi Richard,

In my experience, I've found that most bots work by making a HTTP request
for the page they are indexing to get the content. This will mean any content
on the page that is dynamically generated will be on the page during the
indexing proess. This is why a large amount of content from forums and other
dynamic websites will still appear on search engines such as google. So in
answer to your question, yes the keywords that are generated from your
databsae will still be insdexed by search engine bots.

If anyone else knows otherwise, I would be keen to hear about it though.

"Richard" wrote:

I am building a website based on the Community Starter Kit, so the data is
pulled from a SQL Server db, including the keywords for each page's Keyword
meta tag. Basically a property is filled in within the page's Keyword meta
tag with the keywords when the page is called. There is only one page that
does all the "work", rewriting itself depending on what page is needed.

Because there is only one working page, I don't want to hardcode the
keywords, because then every page will have those same keywords. That is why
I'm calling them from the db. I'm wondering if this will be an issue for
search site's robots. I'm not familiar with how they work, so will they only
pick up the name of the embedded property, or will the page load as normal
with the keywords when the robot attempts to search it? I guess I'm asking if
there is a way to tell the robots to call the url first so the keywords will
load prior to the robot searching it.

[Richard]

Thanks Brian. That's great news!

"Brian Farnhill (MCP VB.NET)" wrote:

Hi Richard,

In my experience, I've found that most bots work by making a HTTP request
for the page they are indexing to get the content. This will mean any content
on the page that is dynamically generated will be on the page during the
indexing proess. This is why a large amount of content from forums and other
dynamic websites will still appear on search engines such as google. So in
answer to your question, yes the keywords that are generated from your
databsae will still be insdexed by search engine bots.

If anyone else knows otherwise, I would be keen to hear about it though.

"Richard" wrote:

I am building a website based on the Community Starter Kit, so the data is
pulled from a SQL Server db, including the keywords for each page's Keyword
meta tag. Basically a property is filled in within the page's Keyword meta
tag with the keywords when the page is called. There is only one page that
does all the "work", rewriting itself depending on what page is needed.

Because there is only one working page, I don't want to hardcode the
keywords, because then every page will have those same keywords. That is why
I'm calling them from the db. I'm wondering if this will be an issue for
search site's robots. I'm not familiar with how they work, so will they only
pick up the name of the embedded property, or will the page load as normal
with the keywords when the robot attempts to search it? I guess I'm asking if
there is a way to tell the robots to call the url first so the keywords will
load prior to the robot searching it.