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Asked: 2026-06-13T19:00:42+00:00

Is it safe to use php include to include aspects which are vital to

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Is it safe to use php include to include aspects which are vital to the semantic meaning of web pages, for things like search engines.

For instance can you have the <h1></h1> headers for your pages all siphoned off to an include? Will google spiders, just as an example, be actually able to see these headers? Is there a type of … passive parsing… if you will, which won’t see html that is dependent upon the execution of scripting?

Or is such exclusion exclusive to client side scripting such as javascript?

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    Google should NEVER see the raw PHP code, because that’d mean your server is misconfigured. The server-side language/processes you’re using to build the web page are irrelevant to the end-user, all they should EVER see is html.

    Since all a spider sees is that html, it doesn’t matter if you’re serving it from a plain old .html file, a .php file, a .whatever_extension_you_want file, etc… as long as it LOOKS like a web page when it arrives on the client.

    e.g. you could go to an ludicrous extreme and have every single CHARACTER of a web page done with nothing but single char includes,e.g.

    less_than.txt:

    <

    h.txt:

    h

    t.txt:

    t

    m.txt:

    m

    l.txt:

    l

    greater_than.txt

    >

    index.php:

    <?php
include('less_than.txt');
include('h.txt');
include('t.txt');
include('m.txt');
include('l.txt');
include('greater_than.txt');

    Hideously ugly, ludicrously inefficient, but here’s what the user will see in their browser’s “view source”:

    <html>
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