Google's Webmaster blog posted some dynamic URL advice that essentially says don't try to make dynamic URLs look static. "We might have problems crawling and ranking your dynamic URLs if you try to ...

In the past, having a dynamic site caused issues with most search engines. If your site has weird parameters in the URL, they were known as stop characters, and search engines would stop crawling them ...

Almost two years ago, Google updated their guidelines to say that they can now properly handle crawling dynamic URLs. But last night, Google posted a blog entry now telling webmasters not to use ...

Web pages or product listings stored in a database or a dynamic page assembly system can be "invisible" to crawler-based search engines. Discover solutions to this problem and the other unique issues ...

The Yahoo Search Blog announced a new Site Explorer feature that enables webmasters to inform Yahoo about dynamic URLs that might be creating duplicate content issues or crawl barriers. The new ...

Ryan Boudreaux discusses the importance of providing user-friendly URLs and offers tips about ways to handle web re-addressing for both static and dynamic URLs. How many times have you tried to ...

Search engines do have the ability to spider secure-server-hosted pages, but often these pages require either that a visitor fill out a form or log in with a password ...

Our second case study has been brought to us by PlumberSurplus.com. In this case study we explore what happens with all the URLs on a site are changed. In this case study the decision was made to ...

Search engines have particular problems with sites that deliver pages via databases, CGI processes or other dynamic means. This article examines the situation in more depth and offers some workarounds ...