I'm sure this question or one similar has been asked countless times but I couldn't find it.
Does anyone know how web pages using server side includes are read by search engines? Google claim Googlebot can read these file extensions but I'm not sure to what extent. My understanding is that if they retrieve data from a database then the template is read but the retrieved data is not. Is this right and is it the same for all scripting languages - ASP, PHP, CGI/Perl, ColdFusion?
Secondly, where a page includes data from another HTML file or a text file can this be read? Is storing data in text/HTML files preferable to a database from a SEO point of view?
Any help greatly appreciated.
Does anyone know how web pages using server side includes are read by search engines? Google claim Googlebot can read these file extensions but I'm not sure to what extent. My understanding is that if they retrieve data from a database then the template is read but the retrieved data is not. Is this right and is it the same for all scripting languages - ASP, PHP, CGI/Perl, ColdFusion?
Secondly, where a page includes data from another HTML file or a text file can this be read? Is storing data in text/HTML files preferable to a database from a SEO point of view?
Any help greatly appreciated.