Lets say for example you have an articles page.  All the available article
TITLES will get listed there from the DB.  And each link associated with
these titles will have an article ID for example.

1. <a href="display.asp?articleID=1">How to build an aeroplane</a>.
2. <a href="display.asp?articleID=2">How to build a boat</a>
3. <a href="display.asp?articleID=3">How to build a house</a>
4. <a href="display.asp?articleID=4">How to build a car</a>

Since these articlse IDs are unique and do not change, even when new
articles are added to the DB, the links indexed by the search eninge bot
will remain the same.  So there is no probs...

As you can see the above example uses Query Strings.  In our case you have
to
somehow ensue that the search engine bot has access to all the possible
links that
can be generated.

> hi,
> how do search engines searh db driven websites?  for example, I have a
> site that uses only one file and then gets content from a db depending
> on a request string.  How do the search engines index the pages?  Do I
> have to provide static pages of all the content as well?

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