The owners of a site I just finnished had another programmer evaluate and estimate thier site. The programmer who did the evaluation said the site was worth $30,000 where I said $45,000. This isn't the point of this thread though. She also ran a browser compatiblty check on the site files. It came up with near 50,000 cross browser errors. Everyone of the errors has to do with the ASP.Net control tags or an ID tag being on a none suported html tag.

The test program does not load files in the same way a browser does. It opens the file as if it where a file so it doesn't even read the post server process html. So at least 90% of this report is just redundent crap.

The question being brought up however is that search engines spider a site in a simular manner as this program. Does Microsoft not know this? Not care? Or what? This is a serious issue. I could care less about Opera and Netscape but the next phase of our project is an active effort to generate traffic and sales through search engines and e-mail marketing. If the search engine can't handle the asp.net tags and won't index and rank a page because of this what is the point of having all the power in ASP.Net if it lacks one of the key aspects of the internet the ability to be indexed by a search engine?

Has anyone worked with this problem or know anything about this? I really need input here and any comments are welcome.

Thanks