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Does Google crawl and index dynamic pages?
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I've linked a category page(static) to my homepage and linked a product page (dynamic page) to the category page. I tried to crawl my website using my homepage URL with the help of Screamingfrog while using Google Bot 2.1 as the user agent. Based on the results, it can crawl the product page which is a dynamic.
Here's a sample product page which is a dynamic page(we're using product IDs instead of keyword-rich URLs for consistency):http://domain.com/AB1234567
Here's a sample category page:
Here's my full question, does the spider result (from Screamingfrog) means Google will properly crawl and index the property pages though they are dynamic?
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Andy's correct. The answer is most likely yes. So if screaming frog find these pages, most likely the Google bot will as well. Also, as long as the spider can find the page, it doesn't matter if it's static or dynamic. However, If you have multiple parameters, Google may decide it's not a useful page and won't index it. Make sure to include a sitemap with all these url's as it may help in getting them indexed in case your site architecture is poor.
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For the most part, Google can find their way well around dynamic pages with few problems. There are always going to be exceptions, but this tends to be when there are lots of components to the URL structure.
As long as it is pretty simple, you shouldn't have any problems.
-Andy
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