Any thoughts on PHP includes?

[glowinggal]

Has anyone noticed anything with PHP includes as content? Such as a menu area? Does the spiders recognize and pick it up or do they skip right over it?

I'm off to search for some articles on this (if there are any) but figured this was the best place to start.. Thanks to all!

[brotherhood of LAN]

Welcome to webmasterworld glowinggal.

Good news, doesnt matter one iota if you use php includes or not :)

php includes files on the server side, so user agents like a visitor or search engine robot have no idea you used php to create the page.

If you load your page up into the browser and view the source code from it that is exactly what your visitors / search engine spider will see.

[glowinggal]

Thanks for the welcome and thanks for the information... that is just what I figured - but wanted to get a few other opinions before I began optimizing and find out later I should have just created additional html content for the site... :)

[brotherhood of LAN]

No worries,

The two things that most people are cautious about when mixing PHP/SEO seems to be file extensions and dynamic URL's

Both can be remedied...though these have nothing to do with includes so all should be good :)