Search engines & ASP pages

[Ladyborg]

I've been told that search engines cannot indes .asp pages, I assume that is because the content is dynamically taken from a database.

My question is: can you create a page which is NOT dynamic but contains the .asp extension and will the search engine spiders index the info - or do the major search engines exclude such pages automatically by virtue of the fact that the extension IS .asp?

Just wondering. Thanks for your help in advance. Ladyborg
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." [Thomas A. Edison]

 

[Dynapen]

Search engines should have to index the page like that. Most of the information they have is coming from the META tag at the header of the page. Now if you are using dynamic content in there, then they may not be able to. But as long as that line is static HTML, you should be able to do it fine. The money's gone, the brain is shot.....but the liquor we still got.

 

[snowboardr]

Search engines can index ".asp" pages because they are still HTML even if the page has information coming from the db...however search engines cannot index pages after a "?" so for example:

Can't be indexed:
item.asp?itemID=323532

can be indexed:
item.asp

Hope that helps..

 

[Ladyborg]

Thanks to both of you. Great help! Ladyborg
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." [Thomas A. Edison]