Asp.net Vs. Seo

[californiaguy]

I need some opinions!
I have been doing SEM - SEO for about 4 years. The websites I usually work with were designed in HTML or Coldfusion, so it was easy for me to make decisions on what would help my rankings.

I just started working for a company that uses .Net.

Basically they have root asp files that use .net to display a variety of text files. I believe their strategy was to save space.

I was asked to redesign the website to make it more SEM friendly. What would you suggest?

1) Redesign the site with as much basic HTML and/or CSS and not use the .net files at all.

2) Keep the .Net files and just redesign the headers and footers.

From my experience all of that jibberish in the .net files hurt your rankings in SEO.

Any opinions and or experience helps.

Thanks for reading!

[RichD]

Hey California guy. Coming from a programming background, I can tell you that your idea of suggesting that the not use .NET is probably not going to happen. .NET is much more advanced then using basic html and allows developers the ability to do much more then with plain html.

Without seeing the structure of the site I would say they probably have the content being pulled in with includes. If that is the case they will then have to dynamically create the Title and Meta information for each page.