[WSG] Search Engines/Spiders and SSIs

2005-01-04 Thread Tom Livingston
Hello all, Can anyone tell me if server-side includes - ColdFusion specifically - would adversely effect search engines/spiders at all? An SEO company we are trying is telling us that our CF includes will effect our SE rankings. TIA Tom Livingston Senior Multimedia

RE: [WSG] Search Engines/Spiders and SSIs

2005-01-04 Thread Collin Davis
Can anyone tell me if server-side includes - ColdFusion specifically - would adversely effect search engines/spiders at all? I can't see how - the includes are parsed by the server before the page is completely rendered to the UA, just as PHP. Any content or links in the includes would be fully

Re: [WSG] Search Engines/Spiders and SSIs

2005-01-04 Thread JohnyB
Right... The bot can't find out, if the page is a static HTML file or dynamically generated output by some sort of server-side technology... -- Jan Brasna :: alphanumeric.cz | webcore.cz | designlab.cz | janbrasna.com ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] Search Engines/Spiders and SSIs

2005-01-04 Thread David R
JohnyB wrote: Right... The bot can't find out, if the page is a static HTML file or dynamically generated output by some sort of server-side technology... One can easily establish that by looking at the HTTP response times, the file extension (if content negotiation, NSAPI/ISAPI filters, or

Re: [WSG] Search Engines/Spiders and SSIs

2005-01-04 Thread Tom Livingston
Why? Tom Livingston Senior Multimedia Artist mlinc.com On Jan 4, 2005, at 3:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On search engines like Google there will be an adverse effect on optimization when using coldfusion. Remember Google is a Hypertextual Web Search Engine

Re: [WSG] Search Engines/Spiders and SSIs

2005-01-04 Thread Ben Curtis
On search engines like Google there will be an adverse effect on optimization when using coldfusion. Remember Google is a Hypertextual Web Search Engine http://www-db.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html I was ignoring this thread as off-topic, but this brings up an on-topic point. ColdFusion

Re: [WSG] Search Engines/Spiders and SSIs

2005-01-04 Thread David R
Collin Davis wrote: Google can, and others are going to be joining them soon. It's a simple matter of using the Flash Search Engine SDK - it includes an application called swf2html which dumps out text and links from .swf files and returns as html. When I put Flash in my documents, I am guilty of

Re: [WSG] Search Engines/Spiders and SSIs

2005-01-04 Thread David R
Ben Curtis wrote: In fact, I serve all my ColdFusion pages as .html because I migrated a static site to ColdFusion and it was easier to tell Apache to send .html file to ColdFusion than to change all the extensions and links. Wouldn't that cause a processing overhead if you ever wanted to serve

Re: [WSG] Search Engines/Spiders and SSIs

2005-01-04 Thread Jonathan T. Sage
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 21:14:25 +, David R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Curtis wrote: In fact, I serve all my ColdFusion pages as .html because I migrated a static site to ColdFusion and it was easier to tell Apache to send .html file to ColdFusion than to change all the extensions and

CLOSED Re: [WSG] Search Engines/Spiders and SSIs

2005-01-04 Thread James Ellis
Hi all. As Tom has suggested, no more on this subject on the list please. Thanks James -- admin On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:30:47 -0500, Tom Livingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Before the paddle is wielded, I remind that I did quickly post a reply to my initial post stating this was OT and