What Is an ASP File? Files created with Active Server Pages have the extension .ASP. This story is an example; take a look at the address above. With ASP files, you can activate your Web site using any combination of HTML, scripting such as JavaScript or Visual Basic? Is It Hard to Use? I don't know about you, but whenever people start talking about doing things on the server, I start to get nervous. I think a lot about threading issues, synchronization, and generally stuff without a user interface. I assume it's going to be hard to do. Well, using ASP is about as easy as anything I've come across in years. Aw, Mom. Not Another Object Model! I really hate doing this to you, but I'm going to have to use that overused and overcomplex term "object model" again. Here's how it works. When a browser requests an ASP file from your Web server, your Web server calls Active Server Pages to read through the ASP file, executing any of the commands contained within and sending the resulting HTML page to the browser. In the beginning there was the web and to find things on the web you need a search tool Webmasters built their sites based on what they thought people wanted to see with a minimal of SEO. Search was pretty easy at the start but as the internet evolves and grows into a viable commercial avenue for business as well as a source of the worlds information search gets harder to manage and the stakes get much much higher. As the commercial potential of the web is now being harnessed, money is a primary motivation for an online presence for so many companies this has fuelled and driven search technology into uncharted territories in terms of indexing and storing the worlds information. Business - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under business/finance/loan/mortgage category more 1 2 3 4 5 Computers - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under computer hardware/software/peripheral category more 1 2 3 4 5 Internet - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under webhosting/webdesign/internet marketing category more 1 2 3 4 5 Software - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under software category more 1 2 3 4 5 Web Design - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under web design/development category more 1 2 3 4 5 Web Hosting - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under web hosting category more 1 2 3 4 5 Web Promotion - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under search engine optimization/internet marketing category more 1 2 3 4 5 Web Resources - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under other web category more 1 2 3 4 5 Recreation - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under travel/hotel/cruise category more 1 2 3 4 5 Casino - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under online gambling/poker/blackjack/roulette category more 1 2 3 4 5 Health - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under online pharmacy/hospital/health category more 1 2 3 4 5 Shopping - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under online shopping/gift category more 1 2 3 4 5 Miscellaneous - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under all other categories more 1 2 3 4 5   With the advent of super sites, massive database driven auto generated sites designed to capture as much free search traffic as possible things have only heated up further, Google creates a revenue model - Adwords - and allows webmasters to sell the adwords product in the form of adsense via their websites. This in turn motivates webmasters to get as much free traffic as possible and as Google is the single best source of free web traffic these same webmasters are building more SE spam! So in effect Google is now funding part of it's own problem. We now see quite a volatile search index where google is concerned, they are constantly updating their technology to counter the spam problem but as they change things with their algorithms, storage and crawl technology it would seem to many legitimate webmasters things just become more unstable and less predictable. Google makes a change and whole industries spring up - Link building as an example is an industry based on getting inbound links to websites to help your SE rankings in particular.