meta tags and ASP
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Topic: meta tags and ASP
Posted By: Aumuz
Subject: meta tags and ASP
Date Posted: 12 August 2003 at 9:08pm
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Question: Can most web spiders read meta tag if it is in ASP (specificly Google and Altavista)? EX: <% site_desc="This is a test" %> <meta name="description" content="<%= site_desc %>"> |
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Posted By: Phat
Date Posted: 12 August 2003 at 9:39pm
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I don't actually know but I would have though that when the spider goes to you site the ASP will run and it will only see the text. A bit like when you see forum pages in a search engine. The page is not there until the spider activates it.
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Posted By: Aumuz
Date Posted: 12 August 2003 at 9:41pm
| Ok... Thats what I was thinking, but I don't want to commit to anyting untill I am sure about it. |
Posted By: KCWebMonkey
Date Posted: 13 August 2003 at 11:13am
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Spiders read the web page just as any user would, because they access the page via http just like anyone else...so yes, you can do that if you wish. If you do a search on the WWG Forum you will find that this has been discussed many times. |
Posted By: Aumuz
Date Posted: 13 August 2003 at 11:35am
| Ok thanks. |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 14 August 2003 at 10:43pm
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You may want to down load Lynx. It's a text-only browser. This is what the spiders see when they crawl your site. http://lynx.browser.org/ - http://lynx.browser.org/ ------------- 
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Posted By: Aumuz
Date Posted: 15 August 2003 at 6:52am
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Cool! Thanks dpyers. |
Posted By: 3BEPb
Date Posted: 16 August 2003 at 9:34pm
| Aumuz, just avoid quotation marks inside dynamic description. But if you need it (for example, I have news headline in title and description of dynamic news pages on my site), just replace regular " with « and » |