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@xxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxx > > > 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 > > > >