Hi All,

I recently read a post that said that google and other spiders are unable to 
navigate paging in the GridView control because it uses postbacks and it 
can't determine the url.

I've verified that it doesn't see portions of my site that are on page 2 and 
beyond according to whats generated. This is not a good thing if your want 
people to find your stuff.

The gridview as it is is so sweet I don't want to give it up. Before 
devolving into custom paging is there an option that would have the page 
numbers generate urls that a spider could follow instead of calls into the 
postback?

Thanks,

John

Hello

  Recently I have been involved in a thread where we discussed this, you 
have some options:

   - Implement custom paging (there you can swap to    links): 
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/CustomPaging.asp

   - Leave the URL issue and generate a sitemap for google (a txt with the 
list of all URL's  could be a good start), check out google sitemaps.

  - There is some trick when you build up the page, check if it's google bot 
and change the page size to 1000: 

if (Request.ServerVariables["HTTP_USER_AGENT"] == "Googlebot") {
GridView1.PageSize = 1000;
} else {
GridView1.PageSize = 10;
}

 Good luck
    Braulio


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"John Mott" wrote:


> Hi All,
> 
> I recently read a post that said that google and other spiders are unable to 
> navigate paging in the GridView control because it uses postbacks and it 
> can't determine the url.
> 
> I've verified that it doesn't see portions of my site that are on page 2 and 
> beyond according to whats generated. This is not a good thing if your want 
> people to find your stuff.
> 
> The gridview as it is is so sweet I don't want to give it up. Before 
> devolving into custom paging is there an option that would have the page 
> numbers generate urls that a spider could follow instead of calls into the 
> postback?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 

Thanks Braulio,

I decided to take a third route -- hijack the page row and put in links with 
url's in it. I don't have large datasets so i'm not worried about 
performance and I'm nervous about the other options.

I created a demo for this:

http://www.nicecleanexample.com/ViewApp.aspx?TID=gridviewnavmod

Like everythign in programming there isn't one right way, just options that 
may be useful in certain circumstances..

John
nice clean examples at www.nicecleanexamples.com



"Braulio Diez"  wrote in message 
news:6389B956-796A-4367-917C-61388FBB4B82@microsoft.com...

> Hello
>
>  Recently I have been involved in a thread where we discussed this, you
> have some options:
>
>   - Implement custom paging (there you can swap to    links):
> http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/CustomPaging.asp
>
>   - Leave the URL issue and generate a sitemap for google (a txt with the
> list of all URL's  could be a good start), check out google sitemaps.
>
>  - There is some trick when you build up the page, check if it's google 
> bot
> and change the page size to 1000:
>
> if (Request.ServerVariables["HTTP_USER_AGENT"] == "Googlebot") {
> GridView1.PageSize = 1000;
> } else {
> GridView1.PageSize = 10;
> }
>
> Good luck
>    Braulio
>
>
> /// ------------------------------
> /// Braulio Diez
> ///
> /// http://www.tipsdotnet.com
> /// ------------------------------
>
>
>
>
> "John Mott" wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I recently read a post that said that google and other spiders are unable 
>> to
>> navigate paging in the GridView control because it uses postbacks and it
>> can't determine the url.
>>
>> I've verified that it doesn't see portions of my site that are on page 2 
>> and
>> beyond according to whats generated. This is not a good thing if your 
>> want
>> people to find your stuff.
>>
>> The gridview as it is is so sweet I don't want to give it up. Before
>> devolving into custom paging is there an option that would have the page
>> numbers generate urls that a spider could follow instead of calls into 
>> the
>> postback?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>