do crawlers recognise ssi links in html?

[dpino]

I've noticed my pages haven't been coming up in the search engines. I'm making a new site and it has about 75 pages so far and decided to try out ssi for the main set of links down the left side. Each page the link goes to has a separate set of links for each topic. I'm doing it this way so that I don't have to go back and change 75 pages (soon to be hundreds more) every time I change something. Do the search engines recognise the links by doing it this way or is there a completely different way I should be doing this? Also, since I'm using ssi should I be changing all the extensions to shtml rather than html or does that generally matter. I've good knowledge of html and javascript, but know nothing when it comes to php, cgi, xml, etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

pino

[DrDoc]

The SE does not know that you are using SSI to include the links. To the SE, it is as if the links were part of the page content to begin with.

[jatar_k]

>> Also, since I'm using ssi should I be changing all the extensions to shtml rather than html or does that generally matter.

I wouldn't change any extensions if you can help it, then you will have to wait for the SE's to reindex the new pages

if you want to see what a search engine sees, go to the page in your browser and view source, that is exactly what they get.

[dpino]

thanks. that's how i thought it works, but i'm sometimes wrong... :) maybe it's just taking longer for google and friends to get to indexing it. i submitted to them almost a month ago. thanks again.