Included documents

Can anyone help me?

[Tor]

I am wondering if searchengines will index included documents as a part of
the document it is included within.

The tag I normally use is: <!--#include FILE="blablabla.asp"-->.

I also wonder if there are problems indexing pages with the .asp file extenstion.(no dynamic content except for the "include file" tag)

[joshie76]

Click view source on one of your webpages with an include... you'll see the <!--#include FILE="blablabla.asp"--> tag has been replaced by the content of your include file. This is EXACTLY what the SEs see too.

There has been some argument as to whether .asp file extension affects your rating though if it bothers you, you can usually configure your web server to process includes with a normal .htm extension.

[Filipe]

I don't think *.asp pages are demoted, and if they are, not much. I can't say for sure, but a site of mine uses *.cfm templates, and it ranks fairly well.

[Black Knight]

With any form of server-side inclusion, the key word is SERVER, i.e. it is translated BEFORE it is served to the user or spider.

[Xoc]

.asp pages have absolutely no penalty. However, some search engines do not index dynamic content, so if you have querystrings (www.domain.com?blah=foo) then your page won't get indexed by those engines.

[Tor]

Thanks alot folks for clarifying this for me.:)