How do search engines evaluate your site

[getmea]

I couldn't decide which forum to post this question since it could qualify into many categories: Search Engine evaluation of one's site/code.

I have a mostly-PHP site which has a lot of repetitive code on many pages. To eliminate repetive coding, I placed common functionality into php scripts--header(1 script), body(a few scripts), footer(1 script).

It turns out most of my page's source code is only around 7-10 lines long...all with php "include" statements. On the top of every page has local php variables to indicate category, brand, and markup (as an example, I sell "widgets"...so I have category="red widgets", brand="ABC Company", and markup=1.15).

Question:
When a search engine evaluates my site page(s), does it read the 7-10 lines of "include" source code (server side), or does it actually read all lines (client side) including the ones from the "include" files?

Sounds like a "duh" question to most, but I've been saying "duh" a lot lately -- brain cramp!

Thanks for your time...

[stymiee]

The search engines don't care about what server side technology you use. All they see is the (x)HTML your server side code generates. To see what they see simply load your page in your favorite web browser and then view the source. What you see is exactly what they see.

[getmea]

thanks, stymiee...

I was hoping for that answer...

[andyf]

As far as search engines crawling is considered they don’t bother about what script is used for developing your site but as far SEO is considered they looks for links, keywords, meta tag…..