# Search Engine Optimization

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/search-engine-optimization/30181>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [September 4, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/search-engine-optimization/30181 "2003-09-04T20:15:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![potamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4bbf92/32.png) [@potamus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/potamus)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/search-engine-optimization/30181/1 "2003-09-04T20:15:22Z")

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Not sure where to post this question…

Reading about search engine submission/optimization. In my site the majority of the content lives in text files that are then loaded into dynamic text boxes. Sooo, do the spiders read this content?

Thanks!

Potamus

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 5:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/search-engine-optimization/30181/2 "2003-09-05T05:52:19Z")

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Well, most of the time, when you search say Google for a specific topic, it’ll return a lot of forum threads, and that certainly isn’t html. So probably yes, considering that when the engine requests a dynamic page, whether it be php or asp etc… it is returned strictly html to read, just like your browser at home. Sorry if I ramble, I’m tired.