Beginner's Guide to SEO

[rlugo29]

Just thought I'd share:
SEOmoz | Beginner's Guide to SEO - Single Page Version

[rlugo29]

Speed Bumps & Walls

Certain types of navigation may hinder or entirely prevent search engines from reaching your website's content. As search engine spiders crawl the web, they rely on the architecture of hyperlinks to find new documents and revisit those that may have changed. In the analogy of speed bumps and walls, complex links and deep site structures with little unique content may serve as "bumps." Data that cannot be accessed by spiderable links qualify as "walls."
Possible "Speed Bumps" for SE Spiders:

• URLs with 2+ dynamic parameters; i.e. url.com: Search with Many (spiders may be reluctant to crawl complex URLs like this because they often result in errors with non-human visitors)
• Pages with more than 100 unique links to other pages on the site (spiders may not follow each one)
• Pages buried more than 3 clicks/links from the home page of a website (unless there are many other external links pointing to the site, spiders will often ignore deep pages)
• Pages requiring a "Session ID" or Cookie to enable navigation (spiders may not be able to retain these elements as a browser user can)
• Pages that are split into "frames" can hinder crawling and cause confusion about which pages to rank in the results.

The above quote was copied from the article in the link from 1st post. I have questions on bullet points 1,4, & 5. What are dynamic parameters, Session IDs, and frames?

[GregK]

I'll give this a crack, but I'm sure someone will trump me, which I gladly welcome.
1- dynamic content is when a website fills fields with content from a database or other source and it can change as that source is updated. A static site however, keeps the same content until it is completely overhauled in the code. One example of dynamic content is your profile pic or avatar, it will change everywhere it appears if you change it on the back end. This point is saying that if too much of your content is affected by other sources, it will be hard for the spiders to make sense of it.
4. session IDs keep track of what you are doing. Amazon will give you a session ID as you check out from the shopping cart. This keeps track of the info you enter, but makes it so that the info is only viewable during that session
5. frames are separate fields that have info in them that is not connected in the same way to the site code. I could show you one, but I don't really know how to describe this that well.

[YoungMoney]

Originally Posted by GregK

5. frames are separate fields that have info in them that is not connected in the same way to the site code. I could show you one, but I don't really know how to describe this that well.

greg do u remember back when websites had lots of frames and sliders. those sucked!!

[rlugo29]

Well, I understand the Session IDs, and frames now (thanks), but am still lost on the dynamic parameters.

[HomeComputerGames]

Originally Posted by rlugo29

Well, I understand the Session IDs, and frames now (thanks), but am still lost on the dynamic parameters.

Example:
www.somesite.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=14423 4

These are your dynamic parameters:
?main_page=product_info&products_id=144234

So every page is www.somesite.com/index.php and this page pulls information from the database depending upon these parameters.
If the spider can not pull up the correct data then to them you only have 1 page on your site.

What's with all of the deleted posts for rlugo29? Are you spamming guy or just quoting people?

[GregK]

Rlugo29 pointed out a guy that was spamming. I banned the spammer but then had to hide all of the comments making not of the spam so that it didn't seem like they were calling the post before that one spam.