Need advise from experts : APEX & Search Engines

Dear Experts,
I need one advice. I intend to develop my site in APEX. But I am not sure if a site made in APEX will be crawled & indexed well by the search engines so that it appears when somebody is searching for the related information.
Can anyone please enlighten ?
Regards,
Ashish Agarwal
http://www.asagarwal.com

Patrick,
Don't worry, I didn't take it personally ;) Just wanted to point out that using the site directive can give different results (or perhaps the same results in a different way) to a plain old 'type in a name' search.
We do use Session 0 on the Apex Evangelists site (for example in the initial link to the home page), however when you navigate to the login page a new session id is generated (which is why that has been indexed multiple times by Google), also some other pages (for example the EuroTraining page have been indexed multiple times due to external links to our site referencing a link which already has a session id, rather than using the alias for it).
You're right you can spend a huge amount of time tweaking and cajoling things to increase your page rank in Google (and other search engines of course), infact I know companies that specifically employ people whose sole job is SEO. You're right, there are still things we can do to make the indexing a bit better. However for our purposes (at that time), the fact that the login page etc are indexed multiple times (for various reasons) doesn't 'hurt' us too much, we saving those changes for the next release of the site ;)
John.

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<body
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{color:#ff0000}
The
highlighted line above from function setupNSDP is code line for: NSDP xml
source to call jsp that invokes java class to convert Answers filtered XML (OBIEE)
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thanks for passing this link Stijin,
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http://oraclebizint.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/oracle-bi-ee-10133-and-mapviewer-step-by-step-integration-phase2-phase3/
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Try to delete the search.json file and possible search-metadata.json and search.sqlite files in the Firefox profile folder to reset the search engines to the default.
You can use this button to go to the currently used Firefox profile folder:
*Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder (Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder)
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
Firefox will rebuild the search.json file from the default search engines in the "browser\searchplugins" folder in the Firefox program folder and the searchplugins folder in the Firefox profile folder.
You can check for problems caused by extensions.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problem.
See "Creating a profile":
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox#Profile_issues
If the new profile works then you can transfer files from a previously used profile to the new profile, but be cautious not to copy corrupted files to avoid carrying over problems.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox

Firefox tells me it can harm my computer and when I accept it it says that maybe I don't have permissions to access it. It all started when I accidentaly installed "Babylon" search engine tool bar, when I removed it, the system started blocking Firefox

I accidentally installed the Babylone search engine tool bar while dowloading a program and when I realized that Firefox had been substituded I tried to get back and even ran a restore for the system. Since then, everytime I try to reisnstall Firefox, there is a message that says that Firefox can harm my system and when I ignore it, it says that maybe I don't have permits or licenses for it. I am frustrates as even the menu bar from my alternative search engine, Google Chrome, has disappeared.
Please write back and tell me what to do

You may also need to create a new profile in case more files were damaged by closing down Firefox that way.
See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox#Profile_issues

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