Does anyone know how google feels and indexes PHP pages?
I have heard that google dislikes and will not index site with pages like /newthread.php?do=newthread&f=6
But then I have also read that recently google changed the program to better index forums and other sites that are php based like PHP Nuke, et al.
Anyone know for sure really how google manages these types of knowledge bases? Forums have tones of content and would hate to have my site not indexed becase google and the others do not like *.php? yadda yadda yadda.
thing2b posted this at 09:04 — 19th May 2005.
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Google will index sites with pages like /newthread.php?do=newthread&f=6
I find that there is not too much difference. Others may dissagree...
If you are worried that a forum will not get indexed, try to stop the forum using phph sessions. PHP Sessions will / most likely stop google where as a url like /newthread.php?do=newthread&f=6 will not stop google.
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chrishirst posted this at 10:37 — 19th May 2005.
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doesn't matter what the server-side technology is in the slightest. User agents will always be served HTML.
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JeevesBond posted this at 11:45 — 19th May 2005.
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If it doesn't matter to the user-agent where did this myth come from? I've spoken to people who do SEO that advise dead-against using PHP etc. when trying to market a site - surely there's no smoke without fire?
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chrishirst posted this at 12:41 — 19th May 2005.
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the usual mixing up of cause and effect. They don't imagine that having a session ID or a boat-load of parameters in the URL could be the cause, or the possibility that they are crap at SEO maybe
it must be because it's php/asp/cfm/pl/jsp etc etc
Talk to people who really do SEO and you'll find a different world of opinion
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schlange posted this at 13:08 — 19th May 2005.
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GREAT thank you for the response Chris.
andy206uk posted this at 12:32 — 23rd May 2005.
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I think google are ok with PHP pages. If you search for:
allinurl: site:webmaster-forums.net webmaster-forums.net
at google, you will see that webmaster-forums.net has over 31000 pages listed and they nearly all use dynamic url's.
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Eagle-Mark posted this at 02:23 — 27th December 2005.
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Yes it can find them but how is the ranking compared to similar page in .html ?
Busy posted this at 09:49 — 27th December 2005.
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I have a site that is all PHP (display=something&num=somethingelse) and google and other bots eat em up. This site only has one main page but 2500 options on it. Only downside is some search engines take the session as well.
If Google can read flash files and pdf files I'm sure they can understand similar server side queries.
I don't know if it's because of DOC tag or what but since done in PHP has been visited more by search bots than it was done in just HTML
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chrishirst posted this at 10:53 — 27th December 2005.
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Absolutely no different
PHP pages ARE HTML when served out to user agents.
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timjpriebe posted this at 13:15 — 27th December 2005.
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From what I've read, as long as you don't have tons of URL-passed variables, and try not to use variables named "id", you should be okay.
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timjpriebe posted this at 14:20 — 29th December 2005.
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I should have said try not to use URL-passed variables named "id." Obviously, your internal PHP variable names aren't even visible to the outside world, search engines included.
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locatepeople posted this at 11:21 — 29th December 2005.
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php pages are fine.
ilchubby posted this at 19:12 — 11th January 2006.
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Hello all.
So,you can also use .htaccess, mode_rewrite ON and rewrite conditions. That helps to create a SE user friendly links.
And do not forget to hide PHPSESSID of whatever you call it in your links.
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EGS posted this at 00:17 — 12th January 2006.
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The Google Bot has trouble crawling and indexing dynamic PHP pages (extension.php?action=sitemap&user=guest&pageid=10079). I believe the reason is that there is much coding involved and the bots recognize the code while the server is processing it (which is unoticable to the human eye), thus causing Google to crawl dynamic pages a lot slower than a standard .html file. It will in time index the page though; perhaps it just has to come back and try again.
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demonhale posted this at 05:36 — 12th January 2006.
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how about my concern on php session ids making sites not pass validations, but the actual html validates perfectly... any thoughts?
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