Title: [OT] SEO include files
If I'm using INCLUDES (witango asp) for link menus, etc., in my applications - do the search engine robots see those? I've thought that they do but a question came up, so I want to be sure before I give out wrong answers.
Thanks for any info! jamileh
Anything that the web server sends to the user agent is available.
But what is done with the info is up to the user agent. For example, you
can disable JavaScript or images in your browser, and of couse some info
will not be visible to you.
Likewise, it depends on the search engine as to how
1. you should protect your /includes/ folder to keep someone from guessing file names and reading them. There's usually nothing to hide, but it's a good practice incase your includes have some logic that you don't want to expose.
2. the includes are processed on the server side, replacing the
Title: Re: Witango-Talk: [OT] SEO include
files
Sorry to disagree, but since the files are processed on the
server side, the bots don't even know they are includes and they read
them just fine.
Case in point...
If you view source of a taf with an include, what you see is what
the bot sees
no disagreement.
the bots don't find the include files, but they will see whatever the include has to offer as a seamless part of the rendered page. Therefore, if your include has logic in it, the bot will see the product of that logic as part of the page that references the include.
so if my
in a TAF/TCF.
Robert
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If I'm using INCLUDES (witango asp) for link
menus, etc., in my applications - do
Title: Re: Witango-Talk: [OT] SEO include
files
That's true. Sorry I misunderstood you.
no disagreement.
the bots don't find the include files,
but they will see whatever the include has to offer as a seamless part
of the rendered page. Therefore, if your include has logic in it, the
bot
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This
really an option on the server best practice:
/ (root) contains
HMTL and TAFs
/include contains
included html/tml
/TCF contains
TCFs
The web server should
be programmed
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no disagreement.
the bots don't find the include files, but they will see whatever the
include has to offer as a seamless part of the rendered page
