RE: FN-FORUM: Newbie requires some advice

date posted 1st March 2006 15:18

There are a few caveats when doing sites for SEO.

1. If you need to use JavaScript then also provide an SEO friendly version
of your links.

For example if you want to use window.open to open your content in a popup
window then to also allow the spider to index the content do it like this



This is a standard link to the spider but a popup window for the user.

2. Don't rely on cookies (including session cookies), spiders don't support
them.

3. If you can mod_rewrite you urls the do, if you can't then don't worry to
much about your file extensions there is no proof that Google or any of the
other search engines penalise sites for using non static (.htm .html etc)
page extensions, they only penalise for using variables like ?id=.

4. Be descriptive with your GET vars as I said, no "?id=" but "?page=" is
fine.

5. Finally, Don't believe everything you read. There is a lot of assumption,
guessing and plain wrong information out there about SEO and since it is
changing all the time what was true today may not be tomorrow.

Regards

Sam Morgan

WiredEyes / WebClickGo
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> Hi,
> I am new here with all this SEO stuff, I have a
> background of VB6,
> C# .NET, JavaScript, VBScript, HTML etc. etc. I have been doing some
> research on SEO but would like to ask a few questions before
> I seriously
> contemplating a large portal solution. Firstly, If I use
> JavaScript at all,
> will my site be indexed, secondly if my web application where
> to create some
> pages on the fly, i.e. If I have to page through lists, I
> would have to
> create more pages at that time, my worry is if the crawlers
> would see newly
> created pages as machine made? Do the search engines penalise
> at all for
> using aspx files or should I render my files preferably in html?
> I am planning on building this portal in asp.net 2.
>
> Thanks,
> James Jenkins