Search Engines and SSI

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by wholesalechecklist, Jul 22, 2006.

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    I use a footer.html file for many of my sites, and I use SSI include to put the footer on every page of my site. Obviously, I have to make every page .shtml as well.

    I was just wondering if search engines can follow my footer and the links in it?
     
    wholesalechecklist, Jul 22, 2006 IP
  2. tflight

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    SSI stands for server side include which means visitors (and thus search engines) cannot tell the difference.
     
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    The search engines see the raw HTML code, so there's no difference.
     
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  4. wholesalechecklist

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    Do I have to make each page .shtml? For some reason, that bothers me...

    Are there any cons with using .shtml?
     
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  5. dcristo

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    To use SSI yes you do.

    Alternatively, you could use PHP includes on normal html pages and in your htaccess add a line to tell the server to parse PHP code.
     
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  6. wholesalechecklist

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    Way over my head....

    Ill just stick with my ssi include and hope that .shtml wont negitavely effect my site.
     
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    File extensions have no impact on SEO so if thats your only concern stick with what you have got.
     
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    .shtml will definately not affect your site in a negative way. It doesn't matter what your extention is. The se's will read and rank a .html or .shtml or .php all the same. It's the dynamic url's that screw the se's up and even that has improved a ton.
     
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