Re: PHP and SEO Workarounds

On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 20:05 -0500, Gautam Bhatia wrote: > hey guys, > Thanks a lot everyone for the links and suggestions , > I will take a look into mod_rewrite and search engine friendly URL's To > make the site more efficient , > > > Regards, > Gautam bhatia. > mail2gautambhatia@gmail.com > > > > > On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 12:44 +0000, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > > On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 12:15 -0500, Gautam Bhatia wrote: > > > > > hey folks, > > > This is in regards to SEO and PHP, From what i have > > > read , most (Not all) the PHP Contents is dynamic , which makes it so > > > powerfull , but it also means that chances of it being indexed in search > > > engines are less , am i right in saying this ? . If so how do i optimize > > > my site for search engines which is being powered by PHP and content is > > > Dynamic. Please guide in this regard. Thank you. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Gautam Bhatia > > > mail2gautambhatia@gmail.com > > > > > > This is a point you'll see mentioned by most SEO 'experts' none of > > whom I've seen can provide any evidence of this. Just think about the > > last time you searched for the answer to a question online. I'd hazard > > a guess that the most popular results had dynamic URL's such as forum > > posts, etc. > > > > While it is true that the URL of a page has some weight to the pages > > ranking, it's miniscule compared to the actual content of the page. > > There might be an issue with blogs though, the ones where new old > > posts get pushed to other pages. So a story that appears on > > blog.php?page=1 might tomorrow appear on page=2, and then page=3 the > > day after. If you have a setup like this, then you could benefit from > > making more static type links for the posts, like Wordpress does. > > > > More important for your SEO is getting the content correctly marked > > up, i.e. headings in <h_> tags, alt text for images, etc. There's a > > good tool for checking these sorts of things at > > http://nibbler.silktide.com > > > > Thanks, > > Ash > > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > > > > > > > > Just to remind you, they really aren't any more friendly to search engines, that's a myth. Do a search for a question and look at the URLs of the results and you'll see for yourself. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk