asp links

Hi, per the advice of a lot of you keen folks, I've been working on a site
map for our site. However, since our shopping cart is in asp, a lot of our
links are short asp strings, like
www.jlhufford.com/detail.asp?Product_ID=1002, and others are longer asp
strings like:
http://www.jlhufford.com/search_resu...xtsearchPar a
mType=ALL&txtsearchParamCat=54&txtsearchParamMan=A LL&txtsearchParamVen=ALL&t
xtDateAddedStart=&txtDateAddedEnd=&txtPriceStart=& txtPriceEnd=&txtFromSearch
=fromSearch&iLevel=1&btnSearch.x=48&btnSearch.y=1.

I've heard that the robots can't deal with complicated asp. So, my question
is how will the robots handle the asp strings that text on my sitemap page
link to? Will they just over-look them? If most of the links on my sitemap
page are asp links, will a sitemap not help me?

Thanks,

james

Thanks for the input. You mean just have a link from index to sitemap? By
static, do you mean take the javascript menu off the top? Thanks again.

James


"Richard Zwicky" <zwicky (AT) metamend (DOT) com> wrote

Hi James,

Took a look at your site. Your sitemap is good, but a little too much
content. Try keeping the page size under 50k. Even smaller if you can.

I ran the sitemap page through our scorecard; good score, a few minor
issues. I tried running your referenced pages too. Unfortunately, they
had
lots of minor structural errors, which although each one is minor, they
add
up. Since you are running the ASP strings, which are not the greatest for
the search engines in the first place, these structural errors are a
problem. You really should look at having a static index.htm homepage,
with a link to the sitemap. It will help.

Richard
www.metamend.com
check out our affiliate program at
http://www.metamend.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/signup.cgi





"james" <hologos2357 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in message
newsErLa.46644$R73.7412 (AT) sccrnsc04 (DOT) ..
Hi, per the advice of a lot of you keen folks, I've been working on a
site
map for our site. However, since our shopping cart is in asp, a lot of
our
links are short asp strings, like
www.jlhufford.com/detail.asp?Product_ID=1002, and others are longer asp
strings like:


http://www.jlhufford.com/search_resu...xtsearchPar a


mType=ALL&txtsearchParamCat=54&txtsearchParamMan=A LL&txtsearchParamVen=ALL&t


xtDateAddedStart=&txtDateAddedEnd=&txtPriceStart=& txtPriceEnd=&txtFromSearch
=fromSearch&iLevel=1&btnSearch.x=48&btnSearch.y=1.

I've heard that the robots can't deal with complicated asp. So, my
question
is how will the robots handle the asp strings that text on my sitemap
page
link to? Will they just over-look them? If most of the links on my
sitemap
page are asp links, will a sitemap not help me?

Thanks,

james

Hi,

By static I mean, make your homepage a .htm / .html page. Make it a mirror
image if your existing .asp page - but fix all the minor structural issues.
It will ensure that the search engines can properly read your top page, and
get a sense of what you are doing. The sitemap will all them to access
information from within your site.

Richard
www.metamend.com
check out our affiliate program at
http://www.metamend.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/signup.cgi



"james" <hologos2357 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

Thanks for the input. You mean just have a link from index to sitemap?
By
static, do you mean take the javascript menu off the top? Thanks again.

James


"Richard Zwicky" <zwicky (AT) metamend (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:kItLa.315269$ro6.7711964 (AT) news2 (DOT) calgary.shaw.ca...
Hi James,

Took a look at your site. Your sitemap is good, but a little too much
content. Try keeping the page size under 50k. Even smaller if you can.

I ran the sitemap page through our scorecard; good score, a few minor
issues. I tried running your referenced pages too. Unfortunately, they
had
lots of minor structural errors, which although each one is minor, they
add
up. Since you are running the ASP strings, which are not the greatest
for
the search engines in the first place, these structural errors are a
problem. You really should look at having a static index.htm homepage,
with a link to the sitemap. It will help.

Richard
www.metamend.com
check out our affiliate program at
http://www.metamend.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/signup.cgi





"james" <hologos2357 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in message
newsErLa.46644$R73.7412 (AT) sccrnsc04 (DOT) ..
Hi, per the advice of a lot of you keen folks, I've been working on a
site
map for our site. However, since our shopping cart is in asp, a lot
of
our
links are short asp strings, like
www.jlhufford.com/detail.asp?Product_ID=1002, and others are longer
asp
strings like:



http://www.jlhufford.com/search_resu...xtsearchPar a



mType=ALL&txtsearchParamCat=54&txtsearchParamMan=A LL&txtsearchParamVen=ALL&t



xtDateAddedStart=&txtDateAddedEnd=&txtPriceStart=& txtPriceEnd=&txtFromSearch
=fromSearch&iLevel=1&btnSearch.x=48&btnSearch.y=1.

I've heard that the robots can't deal with complicated asp. So, my
question
is how will the robots handle the asp strings that text on my sitemap
page
link to? Will they just over-look them? If most of the links on my
sitemap
page are asp links, will a sitemap not help me?

Thanks,

james

james wrote:

Hi, per the advice of a lot of you keen folks, I've been working on a site
map for our site. However, since our shopping cart is in asp, a lot of our
links are short asp strings, like
www.jlhufford.com/detail.asp?Product_ID=1002, and others are longer asp
strings like:
http://www.jlhufford.com/search_resu...xtsearchPar a
mType=ALL&txtsearchParamCat=54&txtsearchParamMan=A LL&txtsearchParamVen=ALL&t
xtDateAddedStart=&txtDateAddedEnd=&txtPriceStart=& txtPriceEnd=&txtFromSearch
=fromSearch&iLevel=1&btnSearch.x=48&btnSearch.y=1.

I've heard that the robots can't deal with complicated asp. So, my question
is how will the robots handle the asp strings that text on my sitemap page
link to? Will they just over-look them? If most of the links on my sitemap
page are asp links, will a sitemap not help me?

Thanks,

james

Your first url shouldn't be too much of a problem for Google (other's
may not index it). The second url though is almost surely a skip over
when the bot encounters it.

--

Motiv8x
Free Search Engine Ranking Report & Forums
http://www.top25web.com

If a search engine spider encounters a "?" in an URL, it stops right there.
Most spiders are still not capable to deal with dynamic links, so they just
stop if they encounter some special characters like question marks in an
URL.
Although most search engines are trying to develop ways to handle dynamic
pages, it's still going to take a while before they actually can do the
trick.
There are several ways to deal with this. Applications like XQASP are able
to convert the URL to one with only "/" as special character. This only
works with ASP however. There's always a way to deal with the problem but it
depends on the language you use (For instance if you use ColdFusion, it has
a build in option to avoid using question marks). There's a lot of info on
this topic on the web, here's one:
http://spider-food.net/dynamic-page-optimization.html

Jeroen




"Joe Blower" <motiv8x{AT}top25web.com> wrote

james wrote:

Hi, per the advice of a lot of you keen folks, I've been working on a
site
map for our site. However, since our shopping cart is in asp, a lot of
our
links are short asp strings, like
www.jlhufford.com/detail.asp?Product_ID=1002, and others are longer asp
strings like:

http://www.jlhufford.com/search_resu...xtsearchPar a

mType=ALL&txtsearchParamCat=54&txtsearchParamMan=A LL&txtsearchParamVen=ALL&t

xtDateAddedStart=&txtDateAddedEnd=&txtPriceStart=& txtPriceEnd=&txtFromSearch
=fromSearch&iLevel=1&btnSearch.x=48&btnSearch.y=1.

I've heard that the robots can't deal with complicated asp. So, my
question
is how will the robots handle the asp strings that text on my sitemap
page
link to? Will they just over-look them? If most of the links on my
sitemap
page are asp links, will a sitemap not help me?

Thanks,

james



Your first url shouldn't be too much of a problem for Google (other's
may not index it). The second url though is almost surely a skip over
when the bot encounters it.

--

Motiv8x
Free Search Engine Ranking Report & Forums
http://www.top25web.com