Ranking pages without linking the content (from a submitted form)

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Hi,

I am looking to index many pages that are the result of a form submission online.

To help you understand:
If the options in the form are:

Field 1: BMW, Merecedes, Porsche
Field 2: Black, Blue, Yellow
Field 3: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002

I want google to not only rank the form itself but the results from the form. How do I achieve this, please?

With the example above, it would tell you the price of the chosen car. So if someone searched Google for Merecedes around £10,000 then my ‘completed/submitted form’ would feature in the results. Ranking the form alone is not enough.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

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Google’s job is to index the pages of your site. It is not going to fill in search forms and index the results.

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if I do a MOD Rewrite I can link to results of the form like this:

The resulting page will then be indexed.

However if I have 1000’s of pages (combinations from the form submission), can I index pages without linking to them all?

Thanks.

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If they are not linked to, the crawlers will not find them.
You could create sitemaps to ensure all pages are linked.

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Unless you list them all I don’t see how Google is going to find them.

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could I create a site map and not link to it on the site?

Would google then find and rank all of these pages? (From Google Webmaster Tools)

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Not without linking to it, crawlers (and people) need links to find things.
How about create a sitemap and do link to it?

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Google is clever but it can’t read minds! (Yet…)

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You could create an xml sitemap for search engines. You add it to your robots.txt file, and submit it to webmaster tools, but there is no need to have a link to it from the site itself.

Do be aware, though, that listing URLs in a sitemap does not guarantee that Google will crawl and index them. This is probably especially true if you have hundreds or thousands of largely-similar pages.

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