Any way to overcome DHTML Problem w/Search Engines?

[Duke]

I have been helping AutographedToYou.com build their traffic and search engine ranking (my main job there is handling media relations but they need help in this area so I have pitched in). We have been making a lot of progress but one big obstacle is that the site was built on a DHTML model with ASP pages. There are more than 1,000 available celebrity pages on the site, but Google cannot see those pages to index them because they are not generated until the visitor clicks on a specific celebrity name. The Google spiders get hungup within this kind of site and beat a quick retreat.

Many modern sites with thousands of pages use this technology, but at the moment All the Web is the only major search engine that indexes and returns those "Deep" web pages (through expensive technology they have licensed from Bright Planet). I am sure that Google will eventually do the same for competitive reasons if nothing else (especially since new companies like Quigo are bringing less expensive solutions to the market), but in the meantime, have any of you developers/search engine optimizers worked with DHTML sites and found any way around this problem?

It would help us immensely if Google saw those pages, because when someone enters a celebrity's name in the search box, we would have a good chance of having that celebrity's page at ATY returned near the top (especially if it is a B list celebrity who does not have a lot of other sites listing information about them).

 

[bidawinner]

Duke, give this a try:

I think this may be what you are looking for..

http://www.cfdev.com/products/productdetail.cfm/id/1023

 

[Duke]

Thanks Dan, I will check that out!

 

[adill420]

you can do that or the other way is go to www.dogpile.com and submit your website it will cost you around $250 for 50 different pages..just put the website url and it will surf the site and extract the pages..once thats done after a while automatically google will start surfing ..i have seen a lot of site who rate good..but obviously nothing beats with extensions ending at .html or .htm

 

[Duke]

Thanks adill. WIth the # of pages we have that would get very expensive of course. As I noted in my first post, the problem should be solved for all sites in a few months as the technology to index these .asp pages is starting to roll out. I'm looking for a quick short-term fix if one exists.

 

[lgolding]

Buydomains seems to be getting it done with google:

http://www.google.com/search?q=buydomains&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=370&sa=N&filter=0

Not sure how, but they have spidered all of his jsp? pages. I beleive he has a site menu html page, auto generate perhaps, that writes out each variable as anotehr seperate link to make it easy for the bots to dig in.

Also heavily indexed becasue of all of the parked domains equate to another webpage, but I don't see how that does not get a huge mirror site penalty.

Is there anyone working at buydomains on the forum?