webbot in Front page

[Cosmin]

Hi,

I am rebuilding this site (in Front page) that has lots of pages.

In order to easily update the site (from my previous experience), I am using lots of webbot (include pages)

So there is a table and I include a webbot for: left, top, bottom, right, news, ant another one. The main content is in the middle of the table surrounded by webbots for easier maintenance.

What do you think, is that a good idea or not? Is there a limit of how many webbot I can have on a page?

My main concern is:

Can this be penalized by the search engines some how, or maybe less ranked?

[pageoneresults]

Hello Cosmin! You have nothing to worry about using FrontPage Includes. The webbots perform the call to the server which seamlessly includes your content. I've been utilizing them for years now and they perform without fail.

I've had as many as six (06) webbots on a page with no issues whatsoever. The spider sees exactly what you see when you view the source code of your web pages at the browser level.

FP webbots are your friends and add various functionality to a FrontPage based web.

[Cosmin]

Thanks for reassuring me.

One thing I noticed dough but I don't know if it's related to that:

Some search engines list my page with a description taken from my left menu (which is a webbot on all pages) with lots of links. So the description looks awful:

Title: My Site

Description: link1, link2, link3, link4, link5...etc

I always wanted to find a solution to this, to hide the links from description and display instead my proper description found in metatags.

Is there a way to tell to the search engine to read first the content and then the rest? I know that some search engines display as a description the first paragraph of your page.

What's the solution to this problem?

[ScottM]

Sure.

Try playing around with some CSS floats. Also, you could use a table layout, with a spacer to get to your content first.

[Cosmin]

Can you explain more abot the "spacer" please?

[Macro]

Hi Cosmin!

We've chatted on MSN and you've linked to some of my sites. Welcome to webmasterworld and I'm glad you took my suggestion to check this forum out :-)

ScottM got it right. It'll take a bit more time to get familiar with CSS but I think that it's really worth it for what you want to do. With CSS you could post all the "What's New", "Free Downloads" text etc right at the bottom of the html but still have it appear at the top of the page to visitors.

I can also confirm that we use a lot of "includes" in FP. That definitely is the way to go.