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03-07-2003, 07:12 PM

Are sites that are dynamically generated using something like index.php?sid=x123&link=blah less likely to get indexed by search engines, in comparison to the good old www.domain.com/folder1/page23.html ?

Please throw a little light on that, please

fnet · 03-07-2003, 07:16 PM

the depth to which dynamic pages will be indexed depends on pr.

FiReC · 03-07-2003, 07:17 PM

your better off having the script generate static pages than go completely dynamic

03-07-2003, 07:20 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by fnet
the depth to which dynamic pages will be indexed depends on pr.

let's say the entire hierarchy would only be ... hmm ... three levels deep. Would the PR still matter?

I'm asking cuz I want to dynamically create pages and I hope to get some SE exposure due to massive amounts of text used...

FATPad · 03-07-2003, 07:23 PM

I think (and I have nothing to back this up except for a few isolated cases on my sites) that if you use an .html extension instead of a .php extension your dynamic pages will stand a better chance of being indexed.

Again, I could be wrong, and I have zilch for data, but I've had dynamic pages that use .html extensions with a ?var=data type stuff after the page get indexed. (www.domain.com/page.html?var=data for example)

notjoe · 03-07-2003, 07:29 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Equinox
Are sites that are dynamically generated using something like index.php?sid=x123&link=blah less likely to get indexed by search engines, in comparison to the good old www.domain.com/folder1/page23.html ?

Please throw a little light on that, please

http://www.domain.com/folder/page.html would better, and dont forget to build a sitemap so all of your pages get spidered.

gripcash · 03-07-2003, 07:30 PM

No reason you can't pass parameters that look like directories for a dynamic site.

Instead of this:
http://www.example.com/something?name1=value1&name2=value2

Do this:
http://www.example.com/something/name1/value1/name2/value2/

Amazon used to do it this way.. now they seem to have some kind of mix.

03-07-2003, 07:31 PM

ah ok, and that's simply a matter of setting in the htaccess, right? I mean, recognizing html files as php and vise versa, correct?

FATPad · 03-07-2003, 07:37 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Equinox
ah ok, and that's simply a matter of setting in the htaccess, right? I mean, recognizing html files as php and vise versa, correct?

Yep. Exactly. It'll add a little server load because all html pages will be parsed for php, but if you want, you can still use .htm as an extension for pages you don't want to be dynamic and those won't be parsed (if you set it up right).

FATPad · 03-07-2003, 07:45 PM

btw, like I said, it was just from my personal observations on a few of my sites.

I could be way wrong.

Darin · 03-07-2003, 07:54 PM

They index dynamic urls, they don't follow them.

Nothing beats a static url, the spiders will follow them through. The best thing to do is use dynamic pages behind static urls.

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