Indexing Service Alternatives

[jdubbish]

So, on my current site I am using Microsoft's Indexing Service to provide a search backend. However, due to the dynamic nature of my pages things are not indexed properly as it does not execute the script on the page before indexing it. This causes page titles and other information to be ignored.

I am currently looking into other search engine options, and am curious if anyone has any suggestions on a good way to implement something like this on a dynamic ASP site. XML seems to be an option, but without having much experience with the technology it's hard to get going.

Thanks for any advice!

 

[kaht]

This is a common thing among indexing spiders. Google, MSN, Yahoo - they all exhibit this behavior.

The best thing to do would be to generate that information dynamically on the server's end. That way the page still appears to be static when crawled by the spiders.

-kaht

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[jdubbish]

All dynamic information on the page is generated on the server side. From a search engine's standpoint the page is static script (as in it sees the entire doctype, header, and body contents).

My issue is that the server-side script is not executed before Microsoft's Indexing Service indexes the page.