Using SSI (Server Side Includes)

[harv]

In order to have duplicate code (such as a subscribe form)
on many web pages we can use server side includes.
This requires your pages to have an shtml extension.


(Apparently some servers can be configured to accept any
file extension - but not mine).

Therefore with an established site (where you have your
htm pages appearing in search engines) it would seem
that you cannot take advantage of SSI or you would
lose your search engine rankings.

Any way around this ?

[markymark]

I don't know of any way, but I'm not a techie. However, if you are going to change to shtml, there are ways of redirecting your visitors to the correct page (ie: the one with the shmtl) extension so that your search engine referrals don't get a 404 error. Again, I'm no techie, so cannot explain these matters, but there are plenty here who can.

[highman]

Yes shtml is indeed server side html (parsing is carried out on the server before delivery)

>Any way around this ?

Not that I know of.... we had to go shtml for a similar reason