Here's a thought: to guarantee that the default output of your CGI gets cataloged by the search engines, why not create an index.html file that contains a Server-side include to your CGI? That way, whenever the robots hit that page, your web server "includes" the default output of your CGI (which is, like you say, just static HTML) and then spits the whole thing back to the robot. To the robot it looks a regular web page, so it gets indexed and cataloged and All is Right in the World.

Of course, this assumes you have access to Server-side includes. Check out the Apache docs on SSI's at http://www.apache.org/docs-1.2/mod/mod_include.html for more information. Even if you're serving from a Windows web server, there should be similar procedures for enabling SSI's.

Gary Blackburn
Trained Killer