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Originally Posted by Nick-UK
The problem I have is that to get to the "Used products" section of the site you have to use a form to specify which type of products you want to view.
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The pages are there. They exist. Creating a page with links to each of the product pages and a link from your main page to this page will bring the SE bots.
URL rewrite on Apache is a good way to make them easier for the bots.
If you create a sitemap.XML page listing all the pages on your site and submit it to Google you will save a lot of time. I use Brian Pautsch's application (
http://www.brianpautsch.com/Blog/200...emapGenerator/) to do this and it works great on dynamic pages but the resulting sitemap will need some editing. If you purchase the app you can enter exclusion parameters that make the editing unnecessary.
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2. What happens if Google was to index these pages and then a few days later the product is sold and (I'm assuming) the URL no longer exists? I don't want to spam Google with a lot of product pages that lead to a 404. Any ideas?
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Create a script that tracks such pages and adds a redirect to you .htaccess file so the user is directed to a page with similar products (presuming the user might want to purchase them) or send them to the main page or your search page, but be sure to give them a notice that the item they were looking for is no longer available.