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  1. 02-06-2002, 08:40 AM #1
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    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.

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    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.

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  3. 02-15-2002, 09:00 AM #3
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    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.

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