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    Anonymous
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    Thanks for the info, gamesdex.

    Lets say I’m making a menu, How much information do I need to put on the page I am going to refer to?

    For instance, do you put just the information you want published, as in just the menu content, or do you need to include the division tags. That sort of thing is what I am unclear on.

    Also, what extension do you name the file under, html, php, htm?

    I hope you understand this, since I’m ‘old school’ (better known as newbie) and don’t know the lingo to use to be more eloquent.:p

    #654234
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    For instance, do you put just the information you want published, as in just the menu content, or do you need to include the division tags. That sort of thing is what I am unclear on.

    It depends. Do you forsee the div alignment changing? If you think it will be a constant, I’d just put the content in there. I don’t think it matters too much though.

    #654236
    vladcizsol
    Member

    Thanks for posting this Gamesdex! :bigsmile:

    I am sure a lot of members will find this tip very helpful :thumbsup:

    #654237
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    I just transferred all my footer and navigation links for my new site into php last night:cool:

    I used to have something like:

    Link 1

    Link 2

    etc… with about 30 links. Every time I wanted to put on a new page I’d have to go through all 30 pages and edit each one. Very boring. Now I have

    [PHP] include(“navigation.html”);
    ?>[/PHP]

    in place of all the bulky links. Just copy+paste all the code for the links into a seperate file and call it whatever you like. But make sure you edit the above code so the file names are the same. Also, you have to save your webpages as .php.

    I’m not entirely sure, but you might need to put this into your .htaccess.txt file:

    RemoveHandler .html .htm
    AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html

    A few people told me you do, a few said no. I just put it in anyway.

    #654248
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Hey guys, this is really great stuff.

    I have another question for anyone who may know the answer: How do the robots like using this kind of website navigation? Will using a php nav hurt SERPs?

    And, What method will work without changing the .html extension?

    #654250
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Robots can handle it, but there is evidence in the serps that the engines are somewhat disregarding/diminishing footer links that are meant to be, well, footer links… repetitive blobs tech-generated rather than manually chosen for a page.

    Obviously there is a danger that an engine will see these repetitive blobs as not genuine, which would not be good for offsite links but would be a disaster for internal linking.

    Massive domains need some automation, but if you got less than 100 pages, I would be cautious about making anything that could have a “ignore me” target on it. And if your domain is under ten pages, definitely just do it “by hand”.

    #654281
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Generally, search engines don’t discriminate against having a .php extenstion, so it shouldn’t make and difference.

    Things get a bit tricky when you start to use a database like MySQL that creates URL, at that point it would be a good idea to convert the URL to something more friendly.

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