Robin Nobles helps unBan WebPro Reader in Google pt. 2

2nd Question: Google does not index asp generated sites well in their index. That was why we originally sought help from this SEO company. As an ecommerce site, 90% of our content is dynamically generated. Are their shopping cart solutions or services that have addressed this problem of search engine visibility in a legitimate "Google friendly" way? Are their optimization companies that only use Google-friendly techniques? Robin: That's not true any longer. In fact, in a post that Google Guy made at the forums recently, he said: "Writing dynamic urls as if they were static used to be the "right way" to present dynamic urls, but that's changing, at least for Google. Google is getting better about crawling dynamic urls, and we'd prefer to see dynamic urls in all their glory instead of written as if they were static. You'll see an increasing number of hosts where we could crawl deeply into a site through all kinds of dynamic urls. Google was pretty much the first to crawl dynamic urls, and we want to do it right without causing webmasters to rework their site. Of course, if you have a url with 15 parameters and only two of them actually mean anything, it's always a good idea to shorten a url whenever possible by trimming out the unneeded parameters. Changing dynamic urls to appear static will be less important over time as Google crawls dynamic urls better. We also estimate host load by taking account whether a url is dynamic or not. Keeping dynamic urls written as dynamic will help us to estimate the load for your server and keep a bot from hitting your server too often. Hope that makes sense. It's a change from what we've been recommending to webmasters, so I wanted to give people a heads-up." On Google's Facts and Fiction page (http://www.google.com/webmasters/facts.html), they say: Fiction: Sites are not included in Google's index if they use ASP (or some other non-html file-type.) Fact: At Google, we are able to index most types of pages and files with very few exceptions. File types we are able to index include: pdf, asp, jsp, hdml, shtml, xml, cfm, doc, xls, ppt, rtf, wks, lwp, wri. At this point, a good rule of thumb is to put links to all of your important dynamic pages on a static URL and let Google spider them. If dynamic URL's are on a dynamic page, Google used to not be able to spider them, but according to the post above, they're getting better and better at working with dynamic content, so I don't think we'll see it as a problem with Google in the future. As far as reputable SEO firms, I've worked with (and trained!) some of the best and most reputable ones out there. If you want some recommendations, send me an email. I'm also in the process of having an SEOJobs.com database created, where certified, trained SEO's can post their information, and companies can go there to search for trained SEO's. It should be ready very soon. Click here for Question 1 Click here for Question 3 Robin Nobles conducts live SEO workshops (http://www.searchengineworkshops.com) in locations across North America. She also teaches online SEO training (http://www.onlinewebtraining.com). Localized SEO training is now being offered through the Search Engine Academy. (http://www.searchengineacademy.com) Sign up for SEO tips of the day at mailto:seo-tip@aweber.com.