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Hi,

I’m currently developing a site that has a lot of menus that are generated dynamically through permalinks to blogs.

I’ve been doing a bit of research as to whether or not these links will be accessible to search engine crawlers, predominantly the likes of Google, but haven’t been able to come up with a definitive answer….has anyone had any experience with this??  Will the crawlers be able to read the permalinks?

Also, with regards to EE’s own in-built search functionality - it seems that it is only searching through the blogs I have created at the moment.  Is there a way I can make it search through content that has been inserted into templates?

Greetings, cbis - that is correct, ExpressionEngine’s search module only searches through weblog entries. It would take a fair bit of expansion, or a new module, to have it handle templates.  What most people do is to make sure that any important content that you want searched is in weblog entries, and only layout information is really in the templates.

As for the search engine thing, they should follow links unless told not to.

Thanks Lisa 😊 ,

I’ll probably go down the route of using blogs in that case - but now I’m wondering if I’m correct in saying that I can have blogs with dynamic content?  I’ve tried running some php within the body of a blog and it doesn’t seem to work….I know the php works, because I already have it included in a template. 

Am I restricted to hardcoding info into the blog?

If you have no security concerns to allow PHP in entries there is a plugin that allows you to execute php from a custom weblog field.

If you want to monitor how crawlers are indexing your site I found CrawlTrack to be very informative and easy to setup and use.