Making data available to search engines

[rupertvz]

Hi Guys,

It is possible to make the table data in one or two fields of a NetTalk app, available to search engines?
I currently have the data data populated in NetWebBrowse updating with NetWebForm, but how will search engines be able to find the data?

[Bruce]

search engines browse your site, just like any browser does.
So if it's visible to the engine (ie not behind a login) then they'll see it.

Of course you may want to consider how displaying dynamic data to a search engine, and then making it possible for the engine to have a "link" to that data works.

cheers
Bruce

[rupertvz]

Hi Bruce,

Unfortunately our site and database uses a login button.

If I understand your post correctly, we should then take the data that should be available to search engines and put that in a seperate browse, which can be viewed before logging in?

Is this what you mean by "dynamic" data?

[peterH]

Excuse me for breaking in.

A search engine will read your page and index it, ie create links to whatever it finds on the page at that moment. When someone later does a search using the search engine and finds your page then the link may no longer be valid if your page (i.e. your browse) is presenting a different set of data that day. That's the problem with indexing dynamic data.

Data behind a login will never be read and indexed by the search engine.

HTH
Peter

[rupertvz]

Thanks Peter,

So what is the best way of making dynamic data available to search engines?
Say we have 10,000 records in a table and one column contains the search information.
Some of these records may change from time to time, but 99% of search-data will remain unchanged.

[Bruce]

Hi Rupert,

>> Unfortunately our site and database uses a login button.
>> If I understand your post correctly, we should then take the data that should be available to search engines and put that in a separate browse, which can be viewed before logging in?

well, search engine aside - if you want people to "find" stuff on your site via google, then obviously you need those people will need to be able to view the data without logging in. So I suggest the first thing you do is make the data available to _people_ who have not logged in.

cheers
Bruce