Templates and spiders

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Templates and spiders

are they good, bad, or neither

TomJones

6:54 pm on Dec 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

I, like many, use Dreamweaver templates. I have been stipping the template code out of my pages and uploading pages sans templates (basically I have two copies of each page). I read the other day that using templates is GOOD for spiders. Is that true? I was thinking of it as more needless code so, I was removing it.

simonuk

11:08 pm on Dec 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

Some SE's like google do stop caching a page after a certain amount of lines (most agree between 200 to 400 lines).

If 80% of those lines are taken up with template bloat or table bloat you can see the problem.

I am using div tags more and more because I can place the header and link divs at the bottom of the page and the main content at the top of the page right under <body> thus making the most relevant part of the page in the place I need it to be.

I think this might be quite disputed but I can only speak from personal experience from the 100+ web sites I've designed in all formats.

Simon.

TomJones

4:14 pm on Dec 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

I use a program that removes all white space, compacting all of my code. It GREATLY reduces the amount of lines in my code. Of course, sometimes it also reduces the space between my words so, this word becomes thisword. I use it because it makes it harder for the human eye to pick-up details; maybe a deterance to casual code stealing. My site shows up great in the major SEs so, it probably helps that, too.