Any suggestions about the link popularity when you're using ssi or frames? I think it's the same just keep your inner links intact.
I'd use SSI just so the SEs know what's going on with your site. For all the advances they've made, they still don't really get frames that much. Remember, your goal isn't "link popularity" but "SERP results." And for the latter, SSI is the better way to fly. The other advantage to SSI vs. frames is that, depending on your server-side language, you can introduce functionality that frames wouldn't necessarily be able to provide (e.g. randomly generated content, database-driven content). So, throwing all SE aside, use SSI from a user point of view.
Really? Hey cool! Ok you got a point for that... But i want to create a very agressive cross links within my pages. And i dont know if ssi can provide that because in fact i use my left navigation panel in an external html file and i use ssi to display it on my pages. I really don't want to make mistakes right now, i'm fed up always structuring my html and find out new stuff so i have to modify all over again !!!!! So i can go ahead with SSI and create my left navigation panel with it? It's a kind of general questions but i'm like a moron here. I can't do anything because i'm not sure!! Interesting though I ought to read more about SSI
ok i just read an article on http://website-promotion.mcdar.net/20334.php and it says: 1) Server Side Includes (SSI'): These are HTML statements written by the webmaster and uploaded onto the server. SSI's inform the server to include a specific block of text when a specific page is served to a browser or a search engine spider. Because these scripts are compiled 'before' they are served, they remain 'visible' to search engine spiders and therefore will be seen as fresh content. Unfortunately, not all web hosts support SSI's; this is because the server must 'read every page' on the web site as it looks for include statements, a process which clearly reduces server performance. I want to know more about the: Is it true or another crap? lol thanks
OK here is me again. I just noticed in my web browser, when i am asking for the source of my site test. i expect to see the SSI tag like : <!--#include virtual="/navigation/main.html" --> But no!!!! My index take all the script in the tag ( <head> i guess ) of the external file in /navigation/main.html, and it adds it directly to my index source file. I just checked in my web browser=>Display source. OK forget the questions ! I just got my answer , ...hope all that i wrote be useful to a guy coming by this thread
What you saw is exactly what you're supposed to see. The whole point of a server-side include is to compile any code before outputting it. This means that all it spits out is what you tell it to. SSIs have uses well beyond just layouts, too. For example, I use them to store precompiled functions in ASP and call them at any time. All that comes out is what I tell it to come out. This is one of the reasons I suggested it; learn a server-side programming language, create some custom subs and functions, and you'll wonder how you ever did without it. Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner...never saw any of the comments.