[thelist] SSI and search engines

Ben Phillips ben at inchima.com
Mon Jan 28 04:42:01 CST 2002


Michael said...
> Will a search engine read inside SSI's?  I want to put all my
> meta tags into
> the one file then include it on every page in a site I am building. Just
> wondering if this will cause problems for search engine spiders.

Don't see a problem. Search engine spiders are like browsers in that they
request the page and process the reply they get. As SSIs are inserted at
your server, the spider receives the content as it would do a static HTML
page, it cannot tell the difference.

So, you should be okay.

Benji.
inchima.com




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