[snotnose]

i am about to launch a new site coded with asp, and a access database. i have tons of content, that is not in the database and i want to make sure its just as able to be indexed through search engines as the html pages are.

anyone know what the deal is with this?

[derbs]

You mean search engines as in Google, Altavista etc... (as opposed to an internal search engine on your site)??

If so, the content will be indexed by search engine robots when they come along (remember to submit your site!). All pages are indexed by robots whether or not the content comes from a database or whether it's just embedded in flat pages.

If you're worried, you could always put this in the head of your pages (or in a robots.txt file):

<meta name=ROBOTS content=FOLLOWALL />
<meta name=ROBOTS content=INDEXALL />

[derbs]

sorry, those things didn't show up

should be: (change [ ] to the proper html brackets)

[meta name="ROBOTS" content="index,follow" /]

this means it will index your homepage and then follow all the links off it, and index all the other pages it comes to.

[Arkham_c]

Yeah, if you want your database content to be indexed, make sure there are links to the html pages that pull the data out of the database.

Oh, and get yourself a damn good firewall and back up often, because if you're running Windows and IIS with an Access database, sooner or later your site will be infected with a trojan that will bring the whole thing down.

[snotnose]

cool thanks guys, i am not running it off my own machine, its on my hosts, so hopefully all will be well

[Raman]

Originally posted by snotnose:
i am about to launch a new site coded with asp, and a access database. i have tons of content, that is not in the database and i want to make sure its just as able to be indexed through search engines as the html pages are.

anyone know what the deal is with this?

Why are you using MS Access? Are you not expecting more than 10 connections at any given time?