if bots crawl content - how so if created on the fly?

[rayh]

Hi.

I'm pretty thick and all that so forgive me if this causes howls of derision.

If a bot searches through the contents of a page - page links and so on as well - looking for keywords and so on, then how does a bot collect keywords if a page is only created on the fly - such as the way cms does it?

Understanding is a great thing.

Thanks

[Dr.CSS]

When a bot goes to your site it reads the pages just like if you went there, it can open links in pages like news etc. and just reads each page and all links on page are opened and read...

If by "page is only created on the fly" you mean it's not a flat file like a standard html/css flat file site, it doesn't matter to the bot how the page is created. like out of a DB as CMSMS does it, if it can be seen in a browser it reads it, although it does it by reading the source which is why it sees the keywords etc. in the and other things that aren't shown on the screen like ...

[rayh]

Thank you Mark,

So what you are saying is that a bot 'understands' what is held within a folder, and then the type of file - data container - , and then how to read it. Wow!

I'm still having trouble conceptualising how a bot 'extracts' from a DB and converts data so that relevent data is parsed as content and keywords. No doubt by the time I'm 100 I'll probably grasp the concept.

Thanks for your time again.

(incidently - you helped me with my 'content input problem - I use lots of etc' - solved it by using {content block = "whatever" oneline = 'true'} and placing that between or whatever with classes applied. Might not be 'pretty' in the Tiny editor but basically means I can control the total look of a page if I want to. )
Thanks for that as well

Regards