.xml in footer question

[rafterman]

I have a client who had next to no text on his homepage, which obviously wasn't helping his on page seo. I wrote up some text, and internal/external link structure, and asked him to put it in the bottom of the page. He replies:

My web developer wants to give me space in the footer of the webpage for your text/links as an uploaded .xml file that I can change anytime by replacing the xml. My concern is the xml will be read by spiders and organic search as an image, and not text – but I really don’t know for sure. If you go into any product page on providencecable.com on the lower left margin you will see “Headlines” – This is an .xml file I can change anytime.



So will this happen? Will an .xml file loaded into the footer be read as an image?

[dburk]

Hi rafterman,

I think you may be confused about exactly what is happening with your XML file. It appears that it is being used simply as a file to store data. The server-side scripting is reading that file and rendering the content stored in that files as HTML content which can be viewed as text by both visitors and search engines alike.

[rafterman]

Originally Posted by dburk

Hi rafterman,

I think you may be confused about exactly what is happening with your XML file. It appears that it is being used simply as a file to store data. The server-side scripting is reading that file and rendering the content stored in that files as HTML content which can be viewed as text by both visitors and search engines alike.

Thanks!

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