meta tag question

right,

but them you will probably got only your first page in their databases (since all the other will look a little like the same).

unique meta tags for each page are a lot of work but it pays off.

joshb wrote: if i add an inlcude file at the top of my pages and manage my meta keywords fro mone file for all my pages the search engines will still pick them up, right?

I remember a thread about this not too long ago where someone said not to put meta tags inside an .inc file because the search spiders can't read them.  Not 100% sure about this, but i would find out before i did it.

Why you would want to do that?

put many if and elses... doing this you will write unique meta tags for each of your pages anyway... but every page will have to run (serverside) a lot of if's and elses to find the metatags that should appear in that page...

and if you want to change it you would have to go search in a big include rather than the page you want to fix directly...

UPDATE:

I researched this and found this:

Long answer: "search engines request pages the same way as every client does - via HTTP protocol, so the server parses SSI the same way it's done for clients. Spiders won't note any difference (unless they somehow access your site via FTP)"

Short answer: yes, search engines will pick up meta tags inside an SSI.