[Mister X]

Originally posted by Cyndalie
In order to optimize the head tags they had to optimize the content in the included file,

Well that seems pretty obvious really. Includes or not what you are doing is building a page so you have to optimise all the parts of the page. What I don't really understand is why they felt it was a good idea to use includes to pull the actual head section. Some kind of bizarre logic must be at work there.

My testing over the past 3 months has shown that SE's are still unable to spider includes as content for the source page they are indexing for ranking.

With respect I proved that wrong in my prior post. If a spider couldn't access includes the page in my example would NOT be brought up by google in that query. For the simple reason that "Lanny Barbie" does not appear anywhere in the source code for that page and never has. It is ONLY in the file referenced by the include. That file isn't web accessible at all unless you happen to know the filename and path because it isn't linked from anywhere.