Hi

I am in the middle of revamping my website and some of the changes involve converting my pages from HTML to PHP.

I know that we're all told nowadays that dynamic pages can rank just as well as static pages in the Search engines (namely the top 3), but can anyone speak from experience whether this is true or not.

Any help/opinions gratefully received.

Thanks

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Deb Harrison
DVH Design
Essex Web Design

Search engines don't know or care about dynamic or static pages. They both look the same to them. They only see the HTML your code produces.

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John Conde
Brainyminds Merchant Account Services eBook Giant

It doesnt matter at all. Where the confusing started with this is how the dynamic URLs are formed. If the dynamic URLs are not crawlable or hard to crawl is where these types of pages can be an issue. Feel free to post some exmaples and we can give more feedback.

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KBK Marketing | Search Marketing Blog | Cheap Web Hosting

What if the dynamic URL is something like this

http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=73782

How hard is exactly to crawl?

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Spanish SEO Blog

Perfectly fine to me.

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KBK Marketing | Search Marketing Blog | Cheap Web Hosting

incrediblehelp is it fine with the search engines though ;)

only kidding

I would assume that some SE's would place keyword importance on the page / url name? Maybe like there is some importance placed on the page title, or H1? Probably not the extention as much as the text?

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Real Online Money Making Opportunities
Florida and Disney Vacations Unique Gifts

Don't forget to 301 the old pages.

Dynamic pages have always ranked as well as static pages as long as you don't have session id's or many variables passed on in the URL.

I seem to recall that Google didn't like the use of ?id= but it seems to have been removed from their webmaster guidelines.

In any case if you use PHP only to be able to have SSI, and if you don't use complex dynamic url, you should be fine :)

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Milton Keynes Estate Agents | Websites for Accountants

Google does not like session and ?id= page for sure.
In my opinion static pages rank always better than dynamical pages.

It doesn't matter. Static or dynamic will rank fine. Having a session ID in the string doesn't have anything to do with if the page is dynamic or not. I do agree to avoid website coding with ?id= but I have seen them rank fine before.

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KBK Marketing | Search Marketing Blog | Cheap Web Hosting

though arguable it is, search engines tend to put some value on key phrases in URLs, so URL
www.example.com/search-phrase.html
is generally better than
www.example.com/some.php?id=00000

some of my customers, who wish to seem SEO savvy, insisted that i setup mod_rewrite for them, so dynamic pages looked static.

do not have clear evidence that it works though