index.php vs index.html

[Positive]

I am working on a website which is dynamic using php. The first page needs to be in php, will this effect my results with the search engines?

Any help is welcomed.

[khuldun]

Re: index.php vs index.html

Wel yes and no, Many websites use php as there homepage and have no problems with their search engines rankings, on the other hand, peopel say no you must have .html to go high, see the vB SEO hack? Well, you can always use mod_rewrite for php pages!

[dude_xyx]

Re: index.php vs index.html

Search engine Spiders can see php pages but the problem is spiders do not read beyond the, ".php," on a URL [mosts people in SEO field believed so].Converting files from Php to Html Extensions would be the best way to by pass this.Read these two articles.

http://www.webpronews.com/expertarti...idersOhMy.html
http://www.devwebpro.com/devwebpro-3...chengines.html


Also use a sitemap page.

[Positive]

Re: index.php vs index.html

dude xyx, these are very informative articles and I have learnt quite new things from these articles. Thanks for posting these.

[Arca]

Re: index.php vs index.html

Search engine Spiders can see php pages but the problem is spiders do not read beyond the, ".php," on a URL

Well, if you will look in Google for:

".php?id"

you will see the first result is for this page:

www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7591

Then there are thousands of this kind of URLs.

So Google is having no problems looking after ".php". Maybe is not optimum, but they see it.

[outsider]

Re: index.php vs index.html

PHP has not posed any great problems.
But Google takes a bit time to index PHP when compared to other SE's.
This is what I have observed!