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[Lynn Terry]

I have always been a big fan of dymanic content - especially for use in content exchanges as a promotional strategy. However... now that I'm looking at things through "SEO Eyes", I'm realizing that this is not the best solution (at least not using java or other script that the SE's dont parse).

At the moment I'm most interested in finding a solution to creating a "top posts" or "latests posts" list that can be used on other web pages - outside of my forum. I've created a page that pulls the posts using java, but again - I dont believe this is read by the search engines. It makes for great content... but I want to find a solution that feeds the spiders!

I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this...
I'd be happy to post the link to what I have - given permission
(am new here and dont want to break any rules on my first day!)

Thanks!!

[mcanerin]

I do a similar thing but I got around the issue by using an SSI (server side include). You can actually usually use the exact same java script and for the include page - SSI's are way easier to use than most people think.

What happens is that the webserver itself processes the script and then just places the results into the page for the viewer. This is great for SEO, people who have disabled javascripts to avoid popups, and those with specialized (like disabled friendly) or older browsers.

Ian

[Scottie]

Hi Lynne-

You are welcome to post a link so that people here can give you more advice. Always easier when we can see what the issues are.

[schecky]

Lynn, depending on the platform and programming language you should be able to embed your query in the page assuming it's Java, ASP, PHP or Coldfusion. Your page could be named anything and the url will appear to be static ie: post.jsp

By the sounds of it you have already figured out how to automate retrieving the data for the database. Now it's just getting the data connected to the page. If it's a text file just open it and read in the data, SSI maybe required. If it's a relational DB then ODBC or ADO can be used to connect to the relational database and execute the SQL query embedded in post.jsp, this shouldn't require any SSI.