Spiders reading abilities

Can they?

[Skylo]

Reading through Bretts "successful site in google in 12 months" I take great notice of his keyword density. Now he says use keywords at about 5% - 20% of your content.

I just want to know that when spiders crawl through a page would they include the includes that you have be it footer, side nav bar, nav bars at the top of your page. Mine are in asp and I know they crawl and understand the asp but what of the keywords in your menus that, in my case and I am sure many others, are constants throughout your site.

So do keywords in there count towards your page keyword density?

Thanks

[Alternative Future]

They will not see your <%includes%> what they will see is what you can see when you view the source of your page from the browser i.e. after your page has compiled and visible on the browser view the source *that’s* what they can see!

So in answer to your question yeah they will see the keywords that are included in your includes!

HTH,

-gs

[kevinpate]

It may help you to run a page of yours through a spider emulator, such as: www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html

This way you can see what a spider sees as it spins across your corner of the web.

[Skylo]

Yeah I know if you view source you see pretty much what the spiders see. I just get annoyed as my includes have to make use of the some of the keywords as guidance for a visitor.

Thanks guys I will go to that site now
cheers