[thelist] SSI and search engines

Olly gnarly at punkass.com
Mon Jan 28 07:53:01 CST 2002


> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] SSI and search engines
>
> So, this source is saying that, for example, <!--#include
> file="footer.inc" --> would not be spidered because of the
> Comment tags. This is the opposite of information I've seen for
> months on this list (and others) re SSI's (or for that matter
> include files used in FrontPage).
>
> Who's on first?

SSIs are inserted into the page on the server side, so the search spider
doesn't see them as comments. It'll see whatever is in the SSI. As someone
pointed out earlier, the spiders see the same code as our browsers do.

Olly.





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