Topic awaiting preservation: Includes & META Data??

If I Include all of my <META> tags (with PHP or SSI) with keywords and descriptions etc ect, Would a web crawler actualy see them? If so, would there be any advantage to having a huge list of keywords and a bunch of different yet similar discriptions and inserting a random one each time the page in requested?

I typically put all of my META stuff into a page that gets included on all other pages. Yes, crawlers will see it, since it's server side stuff.

I don't see any problems with what you want to do.

Hope this helps.

Web crawlers behave like regular web surfers / web browsers and will get the same page as them. As far as random descriptions are concerned, I don't think that they will play very big role on page indexing, because web crawlers don't visit sites very often and there's no point in randomizing them...

Dracusis: There shouldn't be any problem with that. However, this will give you the same metatags on every page and you might want to have some way of adding a few extra keywords to your keyword metatag as this could help people find the exact page they were looking for quicker.

Emps


You're my wife now Dave

Coolness. Thanks all for the replies. I had no idea how web crawler worked. I just knew they were like out there and they well... crawled around and stuff.

Emps, nice tip. I never really thought about it like that before....

In reply to Mr Max "because web crawlers don't visit sites very often and there's no point in randomizing them..."

but they do, most of my sites are visited by google & Intkomi every 2 to 3 days.
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html

Scarface, I don't know what you did with your web site, but usually it takes them much more between repeated visits (i.e. weeks and months)...