Do you index dynamically generated pages (e.g., asp, .shtml, PHP, “?”, etc.)?
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Yahoo! does index dynamic pages, but for page discovery, our crawler mostly follows static links. We recommend you avoid using dynamically generated links except in directories that are not intended to be crawled/indexed (e.g., those should have a /robots.txt exclusion).

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