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| Hello I am just finishing an SEO job for one of our main clients. I instructed our designer to use basic html for all the important pages I have optimised for, the core and long tail phrases. He has just shown me the finished site, all the pages are php even the ones I specifically asked to be HTML. Q: does Google and the like index and rank php pages the same as HTML or will I have to get the designer to redo the main pages as basic HTML? Everyone's thoughts, opinions, and experiences are much appreciated. Best regards _________________________ Last edited by blacknight; 10-04-2009 at 08:55 AM.. Reason: signature rule violation |
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| Code: RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ $1.php [L] There is no real benefit, google is capable of indexing many types of pages.
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| You can always compromise and tell apache to treat files with a .html extension as php In any case as Archstanton says, the more semantic URLs can help with SERPS |
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| For search engines, the programming language is not important, it's the content and the way in which it's presented which gets you the results. |
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| I still find html pages indexed better than php, my personal preference is php, you can make a php.ini file in your public_html folder or root, I'm sure if you do a search you can get the content. yet a sitemap.xml file helps google, msn etc to index your php content pretty well |
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Some of the reasons many people feel (claim to feel) that HTML is better is because the name appears static and more controllable. If you have a single web page, e.g. mydomain/content.php and this PHP file controls all of your content without the URL changing, this would definitely be unhelpful for SEO. A basic easy rule of thumb -give each page a uniqe URL. For example, your About Us page - this could be mydomain.com/aboutus.php or mydomain.com/content.php?about_us. Either way the file arrives as HTML to both your browser/GoogleBot
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