Get Google indexing dynamic content
Having the world’s largest database of information is fantastic – if people know about it. But unless you get the message out there people are not going to find it. So, it needs to be indexed by search engines.

The problem
Dynamic content can create unlimited pages. All you need to do is adding something like a link on each dynamic page which adds a +1 to a number in the URL variable and you have links that go on for ever if they are not stopped by errors.

Therefore you have two problems. First the GoogleBot or any other search crawlers could end up looping, indexing useless pages with basically the same thing on, and if there isn’t anything to stop them, this will continue forever. The other problem is that if the GoogleBot is instantly indexing thousands of pages, it could crash your web server.

Google's limits
To stop these problems, Google places limits on what it will do. First of all it limits the amounts of pages that it will index for dynamic content. It also is simply less likely to index dynamic content as apposed to static content.

This is what Google's about section says:

Your pages are dynamically generated. We are able to index dynamically generated pages. However, because our web crawler can easily overwhelm and crash sites serving dynamic content, we limit the amount of dynamic pages we index.

Increase your chances
In order to get your dynamic content indexed there are several things you can do:

1. Make sure you have at least one link from a static page to each dynamic result. Put plenty on your homepage.

2. Keep your parameters and URL’s small. ?num=19 is better than ?article_name=Some_article_title

3. Have only two dynamic parameters. ?n=1&j=2 will get indexed whereas ?n=1&j=2&t=3 will not.

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