If the Index page has 10 links. Each link fetches the data from database and that is shown to the users. Each link opens same page to display the data. Eg consider a business directory haveing 10 different topics like Agriculture, Automobile, Chemical and so on If the user clicks on Agriculture link it opens page xyz.asp and displays members registered in Agriculture If the user clicks on Automobile link it opens page xyz.asp and displays members registered in Automobile and so on If I insert a code in index page so that every time xyz.asp opens for different category the title of that respective category is displayed Thus if xyz.asp opens thru' Agriculture link then Title for xyz.asp will be "Agriculture Directory" and if xyz.asp opens thru' Automobile link then Title for xyz.asp will be "Automobile Directory" Will this be considered as spam by Google or other SE Harish
I'm really noy too sure what you mean... If you mean, *does linking to this page get classed as spam?*, Then I don't think so... Explain exactly what you mean... Even better, do you have a link?
check link http://www.allindiaclub.com/asps/business_index.asp In business directory click on Agriculture it opens asp page http://www.allindiaclub.com/asps/business_search.asp The tilte of this page is Agriculture Business Directory ...... Now go back on main page and click on Automobile link, it also opens the same page http://www.allindiaclub.com/asps/business_search.asp However the title of this page is Autompbile Business Directory Even though the respective seults ar displayed on the same page the Titles are different. I have done this coding on main page I hope now it would be clear Harish
It shouldn't be considered spam. They are all internal links and distinct URLs (same page but different query string) Mick
Harish318, I have seen where others (mostly on other forums outside DigitalPoint) have stated this type of behaviour they would consider spam and that the SEs should as well. I disagree completely. Your design has incorporated different content to display "dynamically" based on the internal link which queries the page and returns a "new" title and content as the result. In my mind, this is very similar to returning a new page in static terms. As long as you have links that the SE spiders can follow to "see" your content throughout, I like it. I would caution you to ensure you make the "pages" unique enough to always prevent duplicate content for both the SEs and end-users. Also, you have a rather long string for the URL parameters to include "blank spaces" (e.g. %20...). There have been other threads on these forums discussing the issues of multiple parameters in dynamic pages and the need to reduce these for better handling by the SEs for indexing and PR. Hopefully, this answers some of your questions.
Why in the world should it be considered spam? As far as I can see every page is different. The URL is different. The content is different. The bread crumb trail is different. The only similiarity is that they are built on a common template. In my view that is called consistency not spam. The thing I would be concerned about is whether Google is ever going to index a page with URLs like your pages have?
harish318 I hadn't realised when I glanced at the site before but you are passing the whole of your dynamic page description in the URLs. As you are building your page elements dynamically it would be better to add your description then and have the linking URL simplified to something like '.../business_search.asp?cat=21'. This will have no trouble at all being indexed by Google. Mick