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the problem is I have content that uses the same page and is called using an include files.
I have set the include to set the title of the page to the title of the article, but......
I have noticed that for a split second the URL is displayed before the includes <title> code is loaded and the title is changed. I have not described this very well but it can be seen my refreshing.
Will google spider the url or will it actually get the proper title as I have set it?
am I being too fussy about all this?
David
ps thanks for the help - I am learning slowly :)
[edited by: Marcia at 2:35 am (utc) on Mar. 23, 2003]
[edit reason] Sorry, no individual site reviews please.. [/edit]
You have a problem as you have two <head> tags, the second one being in your document body (not good). You also do not close your html file with </html>. Your all important <title> tag is in the second <head> tag, it needs to be up the top!
As for your questions. I believe if your sub directory name / document name is the same as your title tag and the same as your <h1> heading tag, this will help for searches of those keywords ;-)
anyway am I in real trouble having two </head> tags? it is the only way I can get my ASP system to set the title of the page to the title of the article.
David
Yep, cos it's not the w3c standard to use two head tags. Especially a robot could get confused and either stop indexing the page or it's se could later return strange description and titles. Also bad programmed browsers (heard about some out there) could render your site wrong.
Why don't you just remove the head tags from your template files and let your asp scripts include it through ssi?
Concerning ssi and crawlers: allthough you may see the url instead of the title for a millisecond until the page loads completely, ssi is server side and crawlers will crawl the page completely - the sum of all code including the ssi content.
David
