I've got a question regarding SEO and Coldfusion pages. I've read that .cfm pages do not index well... I have one site with index.cfm and when I google it it shows up.. Here's my question: I'm working on a project now and the index page is cfm. the menu, header and footer are on this page and the main content is included by a <cfinclude>. If a SE spider searches for content and can not find any on my index page, does that mean I will not rank well in the search results? Basically how could I Optimize my coldfusion index page?
I've never heard anything like this about coldfusion pages. <cfinclude> is processed by the server before rendering the page for the browser, so the only issue you have to worry about IMHO is whether your server has the juice to render pages quickly. My advice is to look at your page as it displays in a browser and if it is well formed valid code you should be fine. Just do what you would regularly do to optimize a page. I have a number of sites that are built on ColdFusion that I do SEO for and I've _never_ had a problem ranking well for a phrase assuming I put in the appropriate amount of work.