One of the problems with GameSecretary was that while it has hundreds of pages of original content this was mainly unindexable by search engines such as Google and Yahoo. This was caused by the inherent design of Microsoft's ASP.NET GridView control which posts back to the same page when paging through data.

    So I decided to rectify this. I created a page that used a Repeater to create a list of all the games, then defined unique query strings with an ?id=xxx. I then was planning on using a URL Rewriter to make the URLs look static. However after trying both UrlRewriter.Net and UrlRewriting.Net and finding the documentation somewhat dense I abandoned this attempt and researched whether search engines anymore had issues with query strings. According to an informative blog post by Tom Myer of Triple Dog Dare Media, query strings are no longer an issue for the search engines. He quoted several authoritative sources (Google, SitePoint) - so I decided to go with it.

    Per his suggestions in the post I changed my query string from ?id=xxx to ?pageid=xxx as some search engines don't index the id parameter. Then I also added &gameid=xxx where xxx is equal to the full title of the game. By doing so I have made my url much more rich. Thus a URL to the search engines might now look like http://www.gamesecretary.com/encyclopedia/viewitem.aspx?pageid=940&gameid=Dodgeball. Don't try that link, it doesn't exist.

   I also started an articles section, my first article is on the utilization of recreational group games to promote conflict as a context for learning.