Coldfusion pages & Meta Tags

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02-06-2002, 08:40 AM
moog

Coldfusion pages & Meta Tags

I'm currently developing a web shop selling various products, and have a question re. meta tags for the pages.

I have a store.cfm page which is passed a url id, to give details of the product. I can pull meta tags from the database no problem (select metadesc,metakey from products where id=#url.id#) and put them in the page (<head><meta name="description" content="#query.metadesc#"> ).

My question really is, is it worth it? Since there's only one page (store.cfm), will these meta tags get picked up by search engines or whatever for all the products? (i.e. I don't have a bunch of pages: product1.html, product2.html etc which could be indexed by a spider)

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

moog

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02-06-2002, 10:22 AM
Grizzly

I'm no guru on how Search Engines work...but I believe it will in fact register:

store.cfm?ID=234121234

and

store.cfm?ID=897893211

as the same page (store.cfm) I'm pretty sure URL variables don't come into play with search engines...in which case this dynamic Meta-Description might be a pipe dream.

Take my opinion with a grain of salt though...like I said I'm no search engine guru.
02-15-2002, 09:00 AM
moog

Hmmm - that's what I was thinking. I guess I might have to run a scheduled task to generate "productname.html" files in a sub-folder complete with the meta tags and a <cflocation url=store.cfm?id=xxxx>. That way, the pages can be spidered properly..

not very elegant, but there you go.

Cheers,
moog