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Re: Bulletin Boards and Search Engines

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Canbeara" <tristan@dewdrop.com>
writing in ARdvd.25464$eb3.20768@clgrps13:">news:ARdvd.25464$eb3.20768@clgrps13: 

> 
>> You can make the forums public or make them accessible (and readable)
>> only to members.
>>
>>> Any advice on bulletin board infrastructure to ensure search-engine
>>> accessability? 
>>
>> Hold on. Do you want to _hide_ information or _share_ it with search
>> engines? If the latter, you just need to look into search engine
>> optimisation... the usual stuff... links, structure... 
> 
> I do want search engines to index all the
> entries and I want all entries to be publicly accessible as well.  Just
> not sure where SSI stuff is prohibitive to SE access.
> 

SSI or other server side includes are indexed by search engines just like 
static pages, because the search engine gets the same HTML that humans get 
(unless there is some nasty browser sniffing going on).

-- 
Adrienne Boswell
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