Dreamweaver Templates and SEO

Dreamweaver Templates and SEO - Does building a site using Dreamweaver templates affect your listing

Im wondering if google views a page generated from a dreamweaver template in a different way than say a normal html paged

Thanks for your time

 

Answer is no.
SE's and as far as that goes anyone else wouldn't know if it's a template or whatever.
They see a page .htm .html .php and expect valid html coding.

As far as I know DW doesen't put any funny tags into the souce (some of the others do like hotmeral or worse frontpage) so even looking at it I would just see html......

Even if you put together a page using PHP like
include header
include nav
include bodyleft
include bodyright
include botom nav
include special

All that's shown to the world is hopefully seamless and valid html ...

Cheers
M

 

Both dw & front page from 2003 on are damn fine programs. DWMX2004 writes lovely clean code, and so does FP2003 for that matter. Not the best, but clean code that does not cause any search engine problems.

 

I make my own templates in DW, and the code comes out very clean. No ranking problems either... at least that more links wouldn't help! All a DW template adds to the page are comments telling DW to use the template and where the editable regions are.

 

Dreamweaver - I agree started using it when it was 3 , now on mx

Its clean and is so labour saving

Great to hear that Dreamweaver Templates are ok with search engines - just had to check as Dreamweaver Templates save soooooo much time and effort plus you can update your site in seconds using templates

 

I use dreamweaver templates on almost all my sites. Definately makes things easier!

 

So no one hard code anymore ???

 

I only hard code if it's easier to do that way or if I'm troubleshooting. Back in the day I was just using BBEdit...

 

Ummm , no

I must admit I have got so lazy , but hay thats why I bought Dreamweaver

 

Those programs gives you too much useless code that make your pages very heavy and also it's not that easy to find the problem when you have one...
I guess that I'm all alone in here

 

DW MX actually produces very clean code. It's good with external CSS too. It only adds the occasional comment when it's doing templates, as I said before.

Yes, I can hand code, and my initial setup is often by hand, but once I'm tweaking it's easier to do in DW than by hand. And, of course, it's so easy to put up new pages.

Now if you said FrontPage makes heavy code you'd probably get a lot of agreement in here.

 

never had a problem myself...

 

no dreamweaver templates do not effect your google PR.