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[Hannes]

Hi All,

I have a question regarding dynamic & static pages. Our website is built in asp.net, so all pages are dynamically generated. Currently we have around 2 million pages indexed in Google. I was browsing through all these results and I actually realized that there weren't any search result pages (from our website) indexed, which is logical as these pages are created dynamically and thus won't be found by the Google bot.

In our admin system we already have thousands of keywords and I thought what if I create static HTML pages for all these searches on our website. So when a user does a search on our web we will serve the already created HTML page. (In the case we already created that page)

This will mean that:

1. The search result pages will load quicker
2. There will be thousands of very relevant pages indexed in Google

I have been doing some research, but could not really find a lot of information regarding this matter. I just would like to know if this is a common practice or did I miss something and will it hurt my rankings or are there any other issues.

All information is highly appreciated!

Cheers,

Hannes Willems

[Jill]

Yes, that's fine and a normal thing to do as long as you're providing good content to your users as well as the search engines.

You'll just need to link to those results somewhere within the site and as far as the search engines are concerned, they will be regular pages. For best results, you may want to add a unique paragraph blurb to the top of each new page describing what sorts of results they're seeing.