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By following the advice in this forum (thanks all!) I've managed to gt my PR up to 6 for my main keywords which are pretty competitive. I don't want to do anything to negatively affect my PR, hence this post. I have 20 pages or so and I'm adding more on a regular basis. It's time-consuming changing the navigation links on each page as more pages are added so I would love to use Server Side Includes to simplify the process. Now, for my questions:
1) Will I have to change all of my .html pages to .shtml extensions?
2) If so, will this affect my Google PR? All sites that link to me (200 or so) link directly to my homepage like this: [mydomain.com...]
3) If I put my navigation links into an external include file and remove them from the home page will Google be able to follow the links and spider my site?
In a nutshell, I'm concerned that I'll lose page rank and/or the ability for Google to spider my site. Should I be? Sorry for the lengthy post but like I said I'm new at this and the threads that I have been able to find concerning SSI aren't very clear (at least to this country boy). Any help will be greatly appreciated!
I also changed my whole site to SSI with no negative effects on SE and PR. It works fine!
[edited by: Flippi at 10:44 pm (utc) on Feb. 10, 2003]
1) Will I have to change all of my .html pages to .shtml extensions?
There's nothing forcing you to - every SSI/scripting solution I've ever seen can run with .htm[l] extensions with a few simple server tweaks (.htaccess if you are in apache land, or IIS Manager if you do MS)
3) If I put my navigation links into an external include file and remove them from the home page will Google be able to follow the links and spider my site?
Yes. The key point of SSI is that you can modularise your pages while still presenting the same output to your visitors.
For example all the pages I have exist as content-only with headers / footers generated by a server-side include - this means that I get the benefits of modular code while all the visitors get a seemless page which as far as they know is regular HTML...
- Tony
Thanks.
