Invisible Web

[Patricia]

Hi,
My web site has dynamically generated content. It's run on ColdFusion. Which means spiders are unable to index my content.
Can anyone offer any suggestions on where I can look or what I can do to promote and optimized my web site despite the fact that it is 'invisible'.
Thanks.

[highman]

From what I understand it is quite simple to convert coldfusion to using static 'looking' url's, although I cant provide any more info than that as i dont use it, have you tried looking on the MM site?

[Blue]

http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/

[Alan Perkins]

Welcome to the forums, Patricia :hi:Originally posted by Patricia
My web site has dynamically generated content. It's run on ColdFusion. Which means spiders are unable to index my content.It doesn't necessarily mean that.
Can anyone offer any suggestions on where I can look or what I can do to promote and optimized my web site despite the fact that it is 'invisible'.I was interviewed by Jill Whalen's High Rankings Advisor on Optimizing Dynamic Content (http://www.highrankings.com/issue022.htm#guest). It would be worth you reading that. :)

Alan

[Patricia]

Thank you Alan,
I'm reading the article now. It looks good.
I appreciate your response.
Patricia

[Matt B]

So, what is it about ColdFusion that tends to block SE's?

I have seen a couple of CF sites that were indexed without the static URL's, but the majority are "invisible." :confused:

I am soon getting a client that has this very problem and I have to have some semblance of a reasonable answer.

[Kal]

Welcome Patricia :hi:

Many search engines are now choosing to crawl dynamic URL’s containing symbols such as “?”. But for those that don't, consider integrating a parameter work-around to remove the offending symbols from your dynamic content and ensure search engines can index the bulk of your pages. Cold Fusion has a support forum that discusses how to do this here: http://forums.allaire.com/DevConf/index.cfm

More info here: http://www.promotionbase.com/article/485, here: http://www.xde.net/, here: http://spider-food.net/dynamic-page-optimization.html, here: http://www.alphasierrapapa.com/products/portalpagefilter/ and here: http://www.webanalyst.com.au/Products/ASPSpiderBait.htm

Of course if your dynamic pages don't contain "?", it is my understanding that your site is able to be indexed. Hope this helps.

[Patricia]

Wow ! Thanks Kal.
My site does have "?" and the articles you've sited look like they are going to help me.

Thank you,
Patricia