Create search engine friendly static pages from a dynamic page in ASP

you've gotta be kidding me, what if I have 2,000 products.

THere are much better ways to do this using free isapi filter.

Not everybody should be writing articles

Sorry you feel that Leonardo, but I've used this for several thousand products with great success (in both the site and the search engines) - the only very minor drawback is you get one folder with lots of tiny files in. But you can make that folder separate from any other files and it doesn't get in the way, neither does it use much memory.

What happens if I have 100,000 products and I want sell all of them today?

Good idea but what about using an ASP custom 404 page which runs a server.transfer to the page of your choosing. Then you won't need any files in your site at all.

Just my $0.02 :-)

In the past I have generated a static html page (extension .html) every time an item is added to the database. The only dynamic page then is the one that lists the links to the static pages. It's very easy to do and only involves writing the code once.

Leonardo wrote
"THere are much better ways to do this using free isapi filter."

Leonardo,

Where do you find this free isapi filter?

Thanks,
John

I agree with Leonardo ,

Its guys like you, who come up with these so-called great ideas. And get the marketing / sales people all excited , cause of search engine friendlyness.

What Leonardo is trying to point out. Is that your idea is simply not practicle. And not scalable enough.

So readers, instead of doing it this way. Invest the time and learn some ISAPI.

and do not talk crap 1000's of products working in this way... bull

how do i create a picture search engine

have a look at CNN.com this is how they do it, or some thing very close. i doubt that they right 10000's of pages and then the editor say's how about we change our general format, its just not done.!!!!

But what if the files are on another server but on the same LAN? got any idea how to communicate with two servers using ASP?¿

Negative guys those Leonardo and Jeremy. Jeff's solution is a correct, free and very practical one. Who's talking about 100.000 products?
Nobody is waiting for remarks from people like Leonardo and Jeremy.

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Ok your remark about ISAPI filters is valuable.

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By the way: Jeff's technique does NOT mean you have to use static pointers instead of dynamic!!! Generating static pages are ONLY created for search engine purposes. Normal surfing your site will call the dynamic pages of course!

Hello Hendo,

Good tip. If somebody is searching for an item id on your site the correct page will be found. However a search engine will never find them, as it is only investigating existing pages on your site. It is not guessing all possible item codes!
This technique works only if you post all virtually pages (item id's) to search engines manually.

There is a good URL Rewrite for ASP - http://smalig.com/url_rewrite-en.htm - does the same work as author described but w/o any database :-)))

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There is a good URL Rewrite for ASP

http://www.smalig.com/url_rewrite-en.htm

does the same work as author described but w/o any database :-)))

If you guys want a little more power, you might find mod_rewrite for IIS interesting. It uses regular expressions, so you can make the url look the way you want. Check it out at http://www.iismods.com

Happy coding.

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If you guys want a little more power, you might find mod_rewrite for IIS interesting. It uses regular expressions, so you can make the url look the way you want. Check it out at http://www.iismods.com

Happy coding.

What is the best way to use 404 Custom Page to Run.server transfer ?? Please Help !!!!