You can create a page with all the names, then make sure your robots.txt file encourages indexing. Google robots.txt and you'll see the settings.

John

>>Hi, Stuart.
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>>>thanks for that certainly makes sense to me :)
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>>Yes, dynamic pages are perfectly indexable (I have many websites like that) and you can even apply SEO (Search Engine Optimization) techniques to them.
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>Hi,
>I know very little about this but find it intriguing. Assume that I have a database of 10,000 pictures of people and a website page that allows a user to enter a name and (dynamically) get a page containing the relevant image. How do you ensure that someone entering the name 'Fred Bloggs' into a search engine such as Google will get a link to my site at all (let alone to the correct URL to retrieve the image)
>Regards,
>Viv
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>>However, there are cirmcumstances in which generated static pages are a good solution. Not sure if that applies to that case, but when you have:
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>>- infrequent updates
>>- high consumption
>>- needs for distribution networks (like Akamai)
>>- needs to port the content to different platform servers
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>>then you can make good use of statically generated content. Indeed, many media websites (like newspapers) have their home pages statically generated every 5 minutes or so. You can always put that contained within a more common web site, but static HTML is the most scalable solution in many cases.
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>>Regards,