How Server Side Includes are considered?

Same as common html links?

[silverbytes]

I have a page with text link (htm) and want to add in that page a server side include with more links.
My concern is about how are those links in SSI considered by search engines...
Since they will be in a ssi file but included in mypage.htm will they have the same value to search engines?

Another concern is about the loading of the page: if my ssi file is 200 kb, will those 200 kb download after the content of my htm page is loaded, or will add 200 kb to the weight of my htm page and create a lag when .htm file is invoked?

[Edouard_H]

The SSI will have the same value as anything else because it will be rendered with the rest of the page, which also means that it will add to the file size of the page.

[silverbytes]

So it's safe to SE and friendly.
A page with 40 kb and a ssi of 200 kb would download as quick or slow than
a 240 html page with no SSI?

[Sanenet]

Exactly. The SSI is parsed on the server before being passed to the client, so the end file size is the sum of all SSIs.

And no, SEs are no more able to see that you are using SSIs than an average user is.