Googable Databases

[Wessam Bahnassi]

Greetings people,

I have a forums website built with ASP.NET. The forums data is stored in an
MSSQL database.
I want to allow search engines (e.g. google and the likes) to be able to
display results from the forums data, so when people google for something
that has been discussed in my website, google gives a link to see the
thread.
I have no idea how to do this, especially that threads aren't displayed
trivially. Rather they're extracted from the database (by thread ID) and go
through all the bells and whistles of filtering and styling, ...etc.

Any idea on how to achieve this through ASP.NET and MSSQL?

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

Doesn't that happen automagically ?

See the Google search results for my forums application :

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=&...&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=asp.net.do&safe=images


Every single post at my forums site is indexed by Google.



Juan T. Llibre, ASP.NET MVP
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[Wessam Bahnassi]

Hmmm. I don't know. My website isn't that old (about 3 months old). But I
can't get any hit from google pointing to actual thread data.
Do you have to do something special with the MSSQL database (something to
enable searching... I don't know)...

 

[Bruce Barker]

first google has decide to crawl you. second you need to supply links on the
page that google can crawl. use real links, not link buttons.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)