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[phunter121]

I have submitted (and paid for) my home page URL (see below) to be reviewed by Yahoo.

The home page URL is first redirected and then the page is dynamically generated (CGI).

Simple question really, will Yahoo still index the page and navigate the links ?

[sri_gan]

I have submitted (and paid for) my home page URL (see below) to be reviewed by Yahoo.

The home page URL is first redirected and then the page is dynamically generated (CGI).

Simple question really, will Yahoo still index the page and navigate the links ?

Hi Hunter,

If it is a permenant move then I guess you set the proper HTTP code and one more better thing you can do it is... create a page says it is redirected with a link on it and stay for 5 to 10 seconds.

When the crawlers hit them it will have a chance to see the links.

I'm still not sure how smart the crawlers are in the Top Engines like Google and Yahoo on working with Dynamics.

But I know for sure, Googlebot follows the Dynamic if the CGI uses GET method and the Dynamic Links must be visible to them... POST method is impossible for Crawlers.

Else what I suggest is, put some effort on creating static pages for most targeted area of your Dynamic site, Make sure to have a Site Map.

A typical sample of a Dynamic website with perl which would be crawled is below

Assuming the file uses GET Method.

www.abcxyz.com/index.pl?q=flights

Let me know if this helps.

Edited by searchrank, 11 June 2004 - 12:35 PM.

[SearchRank]

Peter, you are simply using a meta refresh tag to direct users to a interior page. Most likely the search engines will index the page you are redirecting them to. However as to crawling some of your interior pages, well many of them, especially the ones in your left navigational menu have too many parameters being passed in the URLs. Typically search engines will not index URLs with more than three parameters being passed.

On the redirection, you would be better off using a 301 permanent redirect than a meta refresh. It used to be that SEs didn't like the meta refresh option. I don't know if that is still the case as I have visited that issue in a while.

If it is a permenant move then I guess you set the proper HTTP code and one more better thing you can do it is... create a page says it is redirected with a link on it and stay for 5 to 10 seconds.

That is NOT a good option IMO.

[Jill]

Did you submit to the directory or to SiteMatch?

There's a big difference.