Are library files indexed by SEs

Question

I have been using library items as shortcuts in my web pages.
Now I'm wondering if the Search Engines can pick them up as if the
actual text and links were there. Any thoughts? thanks -ab

Answer 1

>I have been using library items as shortcuts in my web
pages. Now I'm
>wondering if the Search Engines can pick them up as if
the actual text and
>links were there.
Yes, because the actual text and links ARE there. Look at
your pages (which
contain Library items) in any browser and View > Source
(Code). You'll see
the code which makes up the Library item is in the page
surrounded by
comment tags.
DW Library items are nothing more sophisticated than code
fragments
surrounded by HTML comments with a special syntax.
They start with "<!-- #BeginLibraryItem..." and end with
"<!--
#EndLibraryItem -->"
Search engines ignore these comments - like they do all other
HTML comments.
DW sees the comments and treats them as self-contained units
of code inside
the DW interface. It knows where every instance of this unit
of code
(Library item) is in every page of your site.
P.S. Library items can be a maintenance headache because
every time you
modify a Library item and update your pages locally, you then
have to upload
all the pages containing that Library item to your server. OK
for a couple
pages. A pain for 20 or 50 or a 100+ pages. Server Side
Includes are
preferable.
Regards
John Waller