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Originally posted by Cyndalie
Just don't [ .. ! include... the headar content, the search engines needs the head tags static in order to read the title and metas. Anything else on the page has to be in the static CODE to be read by SE's. SE's cannot spider includes or the content within them yet.
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Actually it never even crossed my mind to use an include for the head section, hehehe. I guess I'm still unclear on exactly how the includes work... really not a programmer. I was under the impression that using the includes (either SSI or asp or whatever) was essentially invisible to a search engine because the server generates the page on the fly (server side) and the spider never actually sees that include statement. I know when I "view source" on a page I never see the include... just the code that was inserted. I guess I'm just not clear on how what a spider can see and what a browser sees are different in that situation.
At any rate I'm guessing that using includes to pull the footer and the news portion of a page would probably not seriously affect a ranking even if the spider doesn't see it.