Databases and Dynamic URL's

Databases and Dynamic URL's are not that useful!

Unfortunately, databases and dynamic URL's can cause many problems with the world's top search engines.

An example of a dynamic URL would generally be a URL that contains a question mark i.e. www.site.com/cgi?user1

A dynamic page is one that is populated from a field in database. There is usually a common template, which is populated in different ways depending on the user input.

A search engine spider will often stay clear of dynamic URL's as they could potentially get caught up within the website and, consequently, be presented by an infinite amount dynamically created pages.

The answer to the problem is to call dynamic pages with static URL's, or create flat HTML pages which can be easily spidered by the search engines.