SSI and Search Engines Ranking

Transfering from frontpage shared borders

[watercrazed]

I am thinking about changing my site, about 700 pages and alot of files. All the pages are html with shared borders. I would like to replace them with ssi files but I am concerned that the SE's will not see the links that are in the navigation bars.

Did quite abit of search on the site, learned alot about cloaking but still not sure if I use a straight include file if that is served up to search engines in a way they can follow links in the include file.

[birdstuff]

If you use SSI correctly Google won't even know you use include files. You'll be fine.

[mrMister]

Yes, server side includes have nothing to do with serach engines. All that search engines see is the final rendered document.

Rendered text is all that counts, server side processing has nothing to do with it.

[watercrazed]

Ok, thats what I thought but got confused from reading some other posts

Thanks for the help