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I was hired to bring a site up to date of a moderately large midwestern company. Their prior web designer created their site using Adobe Golive, and, among other things, uses at least two includes: i.e. <?php include("incl_pagetop_1.html")?>
Question 1: The interesting thing is, the header include and the FOOTER include DOCTYPES. Which means when you pull up the page and look at the source, you see a significant skew - doctype at the top, another one 1/2 down, another further down even yet.
What gives? I realize if you want to validate the individual include you need a doctype. But I assume it's safe to remove same from the includes now? I just think it looks sloppy and I really don't want to put my rubber stamp on a site with sloppy code.
Question #2: Although the PAGE title is unique, the pages are inheriting the meta data via an include as well. Does this not erode the rankings? I thought that unique and well written description tags for each page would be desirable.
Any comments would be appreciated.
>> Does this not erode the rankings?
I would say no, if you had the time to add descriptions for each there may be a small advantgae to that but I don't see any great disadvantage to having them the same.
Most of the time I have an include for them with an option to overide those vars so that if I would like to do them for specific pages I can. The advantage is no longer great enough that I feel using all that time to write unique ones for every page on the site is a anything but a waste.
Question 1: I realize if you want to validate the individual include you need a doctype. But I assume it's safe to remove same from the includes now?
Depends on the type of include. In this case, you normally wouldn't validate the include itself. You'd validate the assembled page where the include was rendered.
What else is in your include code besides a DOCTYPE?
Question #2: Although the PAGE title is unique, the pages are inheriting the meta data via an include as well. Does this not erode the rankings? I thought that unique and well written description tags for each page would be desirable.
They are desirable and suggested. There have been reported cases of pages falling prey to some sort of filter if their metadata was duplicated across pages.
to be honest, I'm not totally sure what I was talking about there
just listen to pageone, he's right, thanks for correcting me
here's a thread, one of many
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