Dynamic Pages and SEO - A Little Help Please...

[dvdtvshows1]

Our site is dynamically generated using ProStores (used to be known as Kurant StoreSense).
We do not get ranked well

Is the problem that the ProStores pages' code is not W3C compliant html? We have not been able to get that changed.

Or is there something else that we are doing wrong?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[cyanide]

Your biggest problem is your home page, the page you enter by typing in your domain.
Since all you have is a bit of text, you may as well not have a front page at all.

Considering your front page is the most important page of your site, this is hurting you big time.

[Dactyl]

Dynamic urls wont help the website get indexed, you should get the url rewritten to be more SE friendly (without session ids, ? and = )

[kgun]

You find links to relevant information in the post about programming languages and SEO.

[Steven1976a]

Your having a laugh arent you. If your talking about http://www.dvdtvshows.com/ its the biggest spam page i have ever seen.
Have you listed every DVD/MOVIE ever listed on that page?

Even if you were no 1 on every search associated with DVD I would be straight on to the second result on the page.


47,849 Words I counted on that page

[eristoddle]

Session ids can be a big problem but search engines are getting better at spidering dynamic links.

[dvdtvshows1]

Thank you all for your helpful comments.

It appears that I have a classic case of
"I ASSUME..."
and we all know what that makes of me...

I assumed that my main page was:
http://www.dvdtvshows.com/StoreFront.bok
because that's the page that I always work on.
Boy, was I WRONG!!!
The pages:
http://www.dvdtvshows.com
and
http://www.dvdtvshows.com/default.htm

were generated from the real site contents inside the ProStores system, using their instructions for generating a site "static page".
No real discussion of the use of that static page.
So I made a real stupid mistake in not thinking about what page is really my main page.
Obviously, I have a lot of work to do.

The long list of products is just what we really do carry. But if I am hearing the "spam" content properly, that may not be a good idea?
What are the standards of good practice for a static main site page?

Thanks for your help.

[dvdtvshows1]

Dear Seteven1976a,

Thanks for the comment. Please see my newer post.
Turns out I was really wrong about what site was my main page.
I auto generated the "spam" page you were looking at based on the ProStores instructions.
Based on your spam comment, that was a mistake.
Obviously I have a lot of work to do to fix things.
Any best practices reference you have that would provide guidance on what is an appropriate static main page?
Should it look like the page I thought was my main page:
http://www.dvdtvshows.com/StoreFront.bok

Best Wishes,
dvdtvshows1

[dvdtvshows1]

Thank you all.
I fixed the main site:
http://www.dvdtvshows.com
so that it is a static version of the storefront page.
As far as that goes...
Since I am locked into using a canned storefront program (Prostores) that generates its own code there is nothing I can do about the tags it generates or the way the code is structured.

What are the best practices within this type of canned package environment - you do not control the code - you can only specify the text block contents, which images to include, and the meta contents for title, description, and keywords.
Which of things that you can specify matter in SEO, and which do not?