Question

I am building a social web application using Java and Cassandra DB. I want some of the data from my database to be visible to search engines.
Since my application is completely dynamic & contains data only in DB and not in static pages, how do the crawlers read this data?

1.)How can I ensure that the data stored on my servers can be seen by the search engines? My application contains user specific data

2.)How do the search engines access that data ??

3.)How can I limit the search engines crawling only to some specific data?

Answer 1

1) You need to separate user specific info from public info, either you should have public and private pages – or you could decorate you’r public page with user specifics through some session based Ajax calls.

Meaning: the browser just load the public version of the page, while a javascript would load the users specifics and inject them into the page.

2 and 3 could be solved by uploading a site map to Google.

Or do you want Google to talk to Cassendra directly…? Then ignore all above – I think.