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Page with "random" content
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Hi,
I'm creating a page of 300+ in the near future, on which the content basicly will be unique as it can be. However, upon every refresh, also coming from a search engine refferer, i want the actual content such as listing 12 business to be displayed random upon every hit.
So basicly we got 300+ nearby pages with unique content, and the overview of those "listings" as i might say, are being displayed randomly. Ive build an extensive script and i disabled any caching for PHP files in specific these pages, it works. But what about google?
The content of the pages will still be as it is, it is more of the listings that are shuffled randomly to give every business listing a fair shot at a click and so on. Anyone experience with this? Ive tried a few things in the past, like a "Last update PHP Month" in the title which sometimes is'nt picked up very well.
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Hi Jeroen,
Many websites have category or listings pages that contain substantially different lists of links each time Google crawls them. This can be because they are rotating the top listings (like you describe) or simply because the velocity of content creation (and in some cases archiving / removal) is high enough that it appears to change dramatically (think e.g. the reddit "new" page).
As such, I don't think you need to do anything particularly special here - it should "just work" for the page in question - depending on the details, you might want to make sure that there is enough other content on the page that it is substantial enough in its own right.
The other thing I'd consider is whether you want to have more static crawl-paths available to make sure that googlebot always has a way of discovering and crawling all listings - whether you do this via categories, tags, or via some other means.
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