It depends on the search engine. Some don't weigh pages with dynamic
extensions as heavily others.
You can always be really slick and set .htm to be parsed by PHP in your
httpd.conf.
Then the search engines don't know you're dynamically generating pages,
and you'll avoid any penalites from having dynamic content.
Personally, I don't think that PHP and Content should be intermingled,
and prefer to use a Template system to handle things like this.
I've used a lot of Template classes, but settled on Smarty
(smarty.php.net) -- it's by far the best one.
Smarty would allow you to include an external file with meta-tags,
without cluttering your PHP.
At my day job, I use Dreamweaver, as there are less technically-inclined
people working with me to maintain the site.
For non-dynamic elements on the site, I make use of Dreamweaver's
internal template features to handle this kind of stuff.
-Jeromie
>I have a topic I'd like to present for discussion. What do you think
>the ramifications would be if one were to put the meta tags for a
>website into a text file and then have them added to a web page using
>PHP include when a page is rendered? This would make editing/updating
>meta content very easy but I wonder what effect, if any, it would have
>with the search engines. Your thoughts, good & bad, are welcome. Thanks!
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