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ttnetworks
New Member
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 28 March 2001 : 06:45:55
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Is it possible to include all of your META tags in an .inc file, like a connect.inc file??? and then use the include file command to access them??
Andrew Thompson
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redbrad0
Advanced Member
USA
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Posted - 28 March 2001 : 06:54:55
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sure, but its a good habbit to name your include files .asp especially when it has information on how you connect to your database.
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JohnIII
New Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 28 March 2001 : 10:41:24
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I can't see it making much difference if it just contains metadata for each page, though...
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Reinsnitz
Snitz Forums Admin
USA
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Posted - 28 March 2001 : 11:04:29
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if the search engines don't key on .asp pages... a meta tag is not very usefull is it?
Reinsnitz (Mike)
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Kerry
Average Member
USA
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Posted - 28 March 2001 : 12:31:05
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Actually many engines will index asp's - but not if the URL contains ? or &.
Although there are ways around that  .
Kerry
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work mule
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 28 March 2001 : 14:26:49
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Sure, you can include all of your Meta tags in an include file.
I've done it.
<!-- SITE & FORUM META TAGS -->
<!--#include file="inc_sitespecific\site_metatag.asp"-->
If you use it as an .asp file, then you can include code to make your meta tags dynamic. It's already being pulled into the forum code (asp) so what difference would one or two pieces of asp coding make?
As far as arguing about whether or not a search engine indexes asp files, who cares?  Chances are that somewhere out in the world, there is a search engine that does. So what does it hurt?
BTW, I did a search on Google and a couple of .asp pages with a "?" appeared in the listing. (We get a good deal of traffic on our sites from Google.) Plus making a quick assumption from looking at our statistics, for one site that is completely dynamic and asp with "?", it sure gets a lot of hits from visiting spiders.  If it was true that they don't follow the links with "?", then they should have stopped at their entry point.
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Kerry
Average Member
USA
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Posted - 28 March 2001 : 14:50:07
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BTW, I did a search on Google and a couple of .asp pages with a "?" appeared in the listing. (We get a good deal of traffic on our sites from Google.) Plus making a quick assumption from looking at our statistics, for one site that is completely dynamic and asp with "?", it sure gets a lot of hits from visiting spiders.
Work Mule, have you done lookups on any of the spiders? My guess (purely speculative) is that many (if not most) aren't legitimate SE's at all but "SpamBots"
(See: http://forum.snitz.com/forum/link.asp?TOPIC_ID=6632 and http://forum.snitz.com/forum/link.asp?TOPIC_ID=6759)
And yes, Google's great because it does index dynamic-content but it also truncates the url.
(See: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=Snitz+Forum+topic.asp - "Tribulation Force Headquarters")
The problem is if they spider it once and then return using the URL on file, you're right back out of the index because the URL pops you right back to default.asp.
But you're right - it won't hurt to add meta's. And seriously, if you have a spare moment to tracert some of the spiders (esp the ones that spider deep) it'd be good to know if maybe more of the SE's are following in Googles footsteps
-Kerry
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