Would SSI/Server side includes have any negative effects on SE ranking 3

[JoJoH]

Would SSI(Server side includes) have any negative effects on search engine rankings? What I am thinking is to use SSI on my top navigation menu, I am just worried that Google or other SE not able to crawl/follow the links on my navigation menu if I use SSI... I don't think it would... Or I might be wrong, please advice.

Thanks in advance!

JoJoH

http://www.jadeboutique.com

 

[ulteriormotif]

SSI is perfectly safe in terms of search engines.

The name says it all: "server side" - it is processed on your server's side of the event BEFORE it is served up to the search engine.

What the spider gets is a page that appears to be a normal web page, with the SSI content in the page as if it were hard coded.

 

[ChrisHirst]

JoJoH.

To check out your site navigation try this the 'Poodle Predictor'

http://gritechnologies.com/tools/spider.go

or the Lynx Viewer (text only browser)

http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html

or download LinkSleuth

http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

but SSI is fine javscript No.






Chris.

Indifference will be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

 

[JoJoH]

Thanks ulteriormotif, thanks Chris for the info!

JoJoH

http://www.jadeboutique.com