Server Side Includes

What are Server Side Includes? How can you increase your rankings using SSI?

Server Side Includes (SSI) is actually a range of directives that will permit you to include the content of a text file inside an HTML file. In this way, you'll be able to add any kind of content to few different pages in your site and adjust it simply by updating one text file. You're able to furthermore incorporate the output of different scripts in order that the current date and time, the IP address of the website visitor or the attributes of some file show on your website. This shall help you incorporate some dynamic content to static web pages, making the site more inviting to your website visitors and creating a much more professional overall appearance. It will also be simpler to update this content in comparison with updating every static web page one by one. If you want to use Server Side Includes in your website, the pages that contain the content of some file must be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Server Side Includes could be enabled without any problem with every semi-dedicated server package that we provide and the entire process shall take you only a minute and simply several clicks. You can enable SSI by creating an empty .htaccess file in a domain name or subdomain main folder using the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP application of your choosing, then typing in a couple of lines of code, which you'll be capable to get from the SSI article in our complete Knowledgebase. The one thing left after that shall be to double-check if all pages that shall implement Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and to update backlinks to different pages on your site, as a way to represent the changes in the file extensions.