My site has a number of pages that are dynamically generated, and as such, no Last Modified Date will be supplied to the FusionBot spider for these pages, is there a workaround?

FusionBot offers the ability for your visitors to sort the order of their search results by Date or Rank (relevancy), however, for dynamically generated pages, no last modified date will be supplied by your server, and as such, can render the "sort by date" option ineffective, and will prevent for the ability to display, as part of your search results context, a last modified date for your dynamic pages.

To address this issue, place a custom META tag in the <HEAD> section of each dynamic page with the following syntax:

<META NAME="FB_LMD_YYYYMMDD" CONTENT="DATE">

Where the value specified in blue is the date format utilized in the CONTENT attribute of this META tag.

A specific example would be:

<META NAME="FB_LMD_YYYYMMDD" CONTENT="20021225">

Whenever this tag is present within your documents, its value will over-ride any value returned by your web server. In this way, static pages do not need to be modified in any way, as the actual modified date, as returned by the server, will be used, and dynamic pages will have their last modified date assigned by this custom META tag.

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