ASP question

[Dennis]

When spiders from search engines go through our site, can they see and
process the things we display on our ASP pages?

 

[Ronx]

They will see whatever the .asp pages deliver to the browser. They will not
see the asp code itself.
However, some spiders will not follow a link that has more than two
parameters in the querystring:
example: the link
www.example.com/asp-page.asp?pm1=boo&pm2=hoo
has two parameters.

 

[Dennis]

Thanks, Ron. One follow-on question, if I may?

So, I have two ASP pages which show data from my Access DB which contains
nursery data.

One page is for Japanes Maples and simply going to the page causes all
Japanese Maples to be selected from the DB and displayed.

The other page allows the user to enter a search string and then it will
display only those items from the DB whose names include that string. If
you hit a 'return' rather than entering a search string, it will show you
everything.

My suspicion, after hearing your reply, is that Spiders will 'see'
everything on the Japanese Maples ASP page but nothing on the full search
ASP page. Is that right?

Dennis

 

[Ronx]

Correct. The spiders only browse to a page and follow links, they will not
submit a form.

 

[Dennis]

Thanks, Ron!

Dennis

Correct. The spiders only browse to a page and follow links, they will not
submit a form.

 

[Tom]

Ron,

Quick way around this, create a link on your Search page to "Show All".

Tom

 

[Dennis]

I see - and when the spider follows the link, it will come to a page
pre-setup to show the entire database. Nice idea.

Thanks!

Dennis