SSI and meta tags

zilker · Apr 18, 2004

Hello All,

I design websites using SSI's. To help keep everything organized on larger sites, I use a SSI for the meta tags. Example; I just completed a website for a client that builds furniture. His largest product line is desks and he also has a few types of "other furniture".

I divided his site into 5 meta categories. Here are the categories:

meta-tags_desks
meta-tags_furniture
meta-tags_generic
meta-tags_ordering
meta-tags_support

Here is an example:

<head>
<title>Stand-up Desks, Standing Desks, Standup Tables</title>



<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

Now for my big question:

Is this going to effect how search engines handle this site?

Thanks

bobrat · Apr 18, 2004

No idea, DMOZ.ORG is not a search engine, and we try to limit questions to the directory. You'd be better off finding a forum for webmasters that can answer a broad range of questions.

windharp · Apr 18, 2004

To complete the answer: Regarding DMOZ it won't affect anything. We review sites by hand, so we are able to ignore all metatags.

hutcheson · Apr 18, 2004

Bobrat is right, but ... I don't withhold information unnecessarily. The "SS" in "SSI" doesn't stand for "Secret Service"....it's "SERVER SIDE".

What the server does under the table, the client doesn't know. What it don't know, it can't react to, kapich?

So get yourself an ancient browser -- Lynx, or Mosaic, or something. Look at your page. That's pretty close to what the SE spider will see. And that's also pretty close to what the ODP editor will judge you on.

SSI? CGI? ASP? Apache? SunServer? MS InSecureServer? Linux? AMD? zSeries? rack-mounted CPUs? metal or plastic logos on the box? Dreamweaver? Fontplague? Webmaster wears a tie to work, and drives a Honda? All completely irrelevant implementation details.

Polish the text on the page as shown to the surfer. That's what counts for the SEs, for the surfers, for the ODP editors.

SSI and meta tags

zilker

Member

bobrat

Member

windharp

Meta/kMeta

hutcheson