: SEO best practices for sites with few pages but lots of lookup information? I have a site that allows people to look up words that "Start with" or "End with" a certain set of characters.

I have a site that allows people to look up words that "Start with" or "End with" a certain set of characters. I am trying to figure out how to get off on the right foot with search engines and I was wondering:

Is it better to have URLs that appear to be unique pages? For example:

mySite.com/StartsWith/pred

instead of

mySite.com/Words.aspx?StartsWith=pred

Both of these would return the same data, but I am wondering if the first is better because it appears to be a unique page to a crawler?

At the end of the day the source code will only contain about 6 pages in it, but with all of the StartsWith/EndsWith letter sets, there are probably millions of possible combinations that people could get to. How would I (and should I) create a site map for pages that do not physically exist, but have unique URLs with unique content? Are there any other steps I should take to make sure that crawlers can find all of these different combinations?

Update
There will be no duplicate content on the site

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@Murphy175

Instead of generating sitemap.xml on a regular basis which can lead to complex file managment :

Record each search on your site in your DB
Each day get the 50 (depends on your website) most famous searches
and ad theme in a dedicated "Trending searches" page, linked in the
footer of your website.
Set a reasonnable limit of links on this page (50 links seems OK)

A sitemap with millions of similar URIs (duplicate content) isnt useful.

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@Kristi941

Both of the URLs will appear to be unique pages to the search engines. Just because one has a query string doesn't mean the search engines don't see it as a new page.

You definitely want to use an XML sitemap to let the search engines know about your pages. You can also do things like have the most recently searched words appear on your home page to help spiders find and crawl those pages.

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