are server side includes search engine friendly?

Hi,

Currently i have my website navigations in iframes. However, this is not search engine friendly and are non-indexable.

I plan to insert SSI (server side includes) navigation menus for footer, header navigtion. However I am not sure if the links in the SSI navigation would be indexable by seach engines.

 

Don't worry. SE's only see your outputted HTML code, not your PHP/whatever code..

Look at your page, with includes, in your browser. Go to View > View Source (or Page Source). The HTML output is exactly what an SE will encounter.

Includes are not only completely safe for SE's, they are recommended (because of the frame problem you mentioned earlier).

 

thanks there!

is redirecting the index.html to index.shtml mandatory for SSI's.

and in that case would all the pages in .html not required to be in .shtml

sounds like a lot of mess?

 

one example is rewriting the url address

example:

url           = www.domain.com/news.php?id=1&title=news&category=10
rewrite url = www.domain.com/news-1-10.html

Code (markup):

 

I dunno, but with Apache's mod_rewrite you can just let people keep using and seeing .html.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule \.html$ .shtml [L]

Code (markup):

That code above may not work, it depends on how you're set up. Using Apache2 with .htaccess, it should work, but for instance I directly use main config files so I would need a leading / top start off the match, because it starts out assuming the ulr begins with mysite.com/


If I can find it, Dan Schulz had a nice thread about ssi's and how to set them up.

*edit here:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=223056#post2145250

 

Yeah, he helped me a lot with that thread, it's very clear, simple and to-the-point.

If you can´t include php in .html files you can also add

AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm .html

Code (markup):

to your .htaccess.
That might work and if it does

<?php include($DOCUMENT_ROOT . "/includes/filename.inc.php"); ?>

Code (markup):

will do the include job perfectly.

 

Thanks, Señior Dogs, it didn't occur to me that Apache might not run .php by default. I figure if you're using mode_php you wouldn't have to manually AddType or running mod_perl wouldn't need to AddType .pl.

 

Hello Miss Poes,

I understand many shared hostings don´t have Apache set to run php by default, but you can trigger it to allow php by using the code I posted, although apparently not on all servers.

Groetings.