does asp generated text from database get seen by spiders?

[slickwillyslim]

i have a big product line, everything is being pulled from a database and written to a products page by category. my question is, do the search engine spiders see this content? if they can't see the product descriptions then the page content wouldn't match up with my meta tags. i've seen some sites with their products pages in HTML. are they doing this for ranking? i know it's ok for my cart to be in asp, but does it hurt my product pages (and overall site ranking)? due to the fact that i have so many products it is much easier to make product changes in the database. i guess my real question should be, how does a spider crawl a page? does it open the page like a browser does, and does the vbScript, ADO, and SQL stuff run to pull the database contents for the spider to read. any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[onpnt]

topic has been discussed multiple times in the forum828
Search Engine Optimization forum.

try a search on the topic

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