I currently have some webpages drawn up. I have then setup as php pages and the makeup html hasthe simple layout then I used these <?php include ("leftmenu.html") ?> for the elements such as header, footer, left menu, main body and right menu. What I am seeing is that search engines are only picking up the sites main index page and not all the other html pages because of that setup. I can and am willing to setup static html extension pages for every document but would like to leave the left and right menus outside of the page so that when i change an element, it reflects allpages. Any thoughts ?
Your thoughts are completely wrong. Search engines pick up what you see in the browser. All I can suggest is to change your footer and header files to .php and get some more inbound links to your inner pages, not the home page You could also check for an internal linking, maybe it does not work properly. Another suggestion is to you Google Maps