dataNdesigns — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:49:48 +0000

CptAwesome, thanks cpt, Yep it does sort of work like that, basically the content loads due to the page_id variable, this gives it different content.

CptAwesome — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:38:55 +0000

Don't just totally dupe the page, in the first line of ASP put something like "$page_id = 'Choose'" in the script itself (I don't know if that's proper ASP syntax) then put code in the default.asp that if $page_id == "Choose" redirect to Choose.asp (header('Location: Choose.asp'); in php)

dataNdesigns — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 05:46:41 +0000

demonhale - Exactly, thats why I needed the pages to be a different name as they do contain different data.

CptAwesome - I did make the page generator, just wanted to know if any one had experience of it working.
If you go to my site and use the following urls you will see what I mean -
http://www.datandesigns.com.au/default.asp?page_id=choose
and
http://www.datandesigns.com.au/Choose.asp?page_id=Choose
these are really the same pages, but the page generator I made created the choose.asp page based on the default page.

Does that make sense? Im wanting to know if anyone knows if this works with the engines or do they compare default.asp and choose.asp and penalise me for duplication, given that in therory they should not even be able to see the default.asp?page_id=choose, by what I have read.

demonhale — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 02:53:55 +0000

dataNdesigns wrote:
I have read that the more pages your site has the more you can pick up on page rank, hence I have just created a script that duplicates the default page and copys to match the page id's it got automatic checking etc but im hoping that the search engines will look at this as a seperate pages, ie:
default.asp -> contactus.asp?page_id=contactus.

Has anyone tried this? do you think it will work?

Yes more pages does affect PR,
but bots also look for relevant pages; not repeating...

CptAwesome — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:52:45 +0000

there isn't really easy or automatic way to do it without mod_rewrite (that I am aware of) you can hardcode values like $page_id into seperate pages, and maybe mod the navigation structure of the site.

dataNdesigns — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:34:13 +0000

Unfortuntatly no I dont have access to change me server, and they are pretty strict about it, thought I would use it if I changed servers, I have also looked at a a url re-write function that goes through the globa.asa file, but it looked a bit ruff.

Busy — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:21:32 +0000

Can you use mod_rewrite or anything?
If you can you can leave the page as default.asp but the actual link to it would be something like: default.asp -> d/contact-us/ or just contact-us/ (with or without last slash or even .abc, .html ...)

am not sure what other links you have but you can get creative