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Hi,

Just wondering, if you have a website, in which one you can make queries to get a SERP (say http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=golf), how will be possible say to a Search engine (say google) that should look for a keyword into your own search engine.

Example:

Somebody looks for "code golfs" in google, as "code" is one of the 
Keywords of SO, the SO SERP page is shown as one of the results in google.

There is a way to say that into the robots.txt or wherever?

Thanks a lot.

+2  A: 

This is one of the reasons for having tags I think. It allows you to have a URL which you can link to (from the list of tags for example) like this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/code-golf

Garry Shutler
I *love* tags for that reason too, and I think that is the proper solution for a lot of SEO frinedly problems, but just wondering if there is a way to cover more words that your tags can cover.
David Santamaria
+1  A: 

Store the keywords used to search inside the existing engine - maybe even with a weight of importance in your Database.

Then simply write a Sitemap.XML with those written into your Querystrings.

See here for example - this is something I put together

http://www.querybox.com/sitemap.aspx

http://www.querybox.com/

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&hs=PCu&q=site%3Awww.querybox.com&btnG=Search&meta=

Paul
Then what you are defining is a sitemap, that will tell to the Search Engine the avaliable pages that you have into your site, but what i am wondering is if you can say to the Search Engine to perform a query into your system.
David Santamaria
Don't know that this is possible. I mean - how will they know what to ask of your search engine / site?Unless you prepopulate the Get requests with data in the sitemap, there's no way for them to dynamically query your engine.
Paul
A: 

Also note that Google doesn't really like when people try to make it index search queries. You will get penalized if you're caught doing it. I've seen sites getting pwned for this lots of times.

Is this a bad SEO strategy? I didn't know it, thanks for the info, but can you give any links or sites that say that as well?
David Santamaria
I'd also like clarification on this as well.
Paul
here you go http://searchengineland.com/google-warning-against-letting-your-search-results-get-indexed-10709 It also contains link to Matt Cutts (google's engineer official blog where he points out this change in google guidelines) - This is from 2007, now it's a pretty common knowledge ;)