SEO Tycoon

**herbal_ali** · 05:36 PM

Hello,

My site has a lot of php code and links, will this affect my SEO in any way????

I know dynamic links aren't SEO friendly, but how would that affect the incoming traffic to my homepage? bear in mind, i will have some static links pointing to the homepage on subpages. Wouldn't it be a good thing since there are less outbound static links?

Please tell me your opinions on this

Thankyou

**chrishirst** · 02-05-2006, 05:43 PM

No it won't !!!

same with the crap about dynamic links not being "SE Friendly". Have a check how many pages for this forum are indexed then tell me SEs don't "like" dynamic URIs !!

**herbal_ali** · 02-06-2006, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

No it won't !!!

same with the crap about dynamic links not being "SE Friendly". Have a check how many pages for this forum are indexed then tell me SEs don't "like" dynamic URIs !!

Thank god for that.

**Harvey** · 02-06-2006, 03:59 PM

Don't worry about PHP in the slightest - think about it - by the time the SE grabs the page, it's already been generated

Just to clarify, SEs don't "like" URL links such as "/view&resourceid=..." but don't "mind" dynamic URLs, as long as they don't have hundreds of parameters (!)

**john546** · 02-08-2006, 11:18 PM

Don't worry about using php in your pages. Google will grab a html cache of your page so they will just see it as if it was just a html coded page.

**Lasso** · 02-09-2006, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

No it won't !!!

same with the crap about dynamic links not being "SE Friendly". Have a check how many pages for this forum are indexed then tell me SEs don't "like" dynamic URIs !!

Dynamic links are fine but Google doesm't really like them.

**john546** · 02-09-2006, 06:48 PM

I prefer to use search engine friendly links. But I have also used dynamic links in the past and didn't see any problem with them.

**etech-martin** · 08:45 PM

I think you should visit this webmaster guidelines link of Google site. It will clear you the picture of dynamic links.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html

Edit: typos, typos, typos

**chrishirst** · 02-10-2006, 07:47 AM

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Google doesm't really like them

Google doesn't like or dislike anything, it isn't a human being it's a piece of software.
There are things it can handle easily and some things that it doesn't.

Dynamic links cause the crawl rate to be slowed because there can be an issue where the database could be overrun with queries from spiders alone.

Even URIs with more than 3 querystring parameters can and do get crawled if the site is "important" enough according to the algo criteria. What causes an issue more than anything is having a page that is reached with a parameter eg "category.asp?cat=1234" and the links going off that page are also "dynamic" eg "product.asp?prod=6789" in this case product.asp is unlikely to be crawled without other links from a static page (eg a sitemap) or an alternative external routes (deep links) pointing to it.

BTW this is not some random information based on guesswork, this is tried and tested by myself over several years of working with "dynamic" and database driven sites and the search engines. Including coding my own SE for a company intranet and a limited number of external sites and the problems that needed to be overcome there.

**Harvey** · 02-10-2006, 07:53 AM

Useful advice. Pretty sure I made most of it clear in my post above though.

You mean Google isn't an emotional person? Dang...

**stOx** · 09:05 AM

I remember reading google saying that bots have no trouble spidering URLs with one variable in, But urls with more than one may present problems.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Google

If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a "?" character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few.

Source

I don't know if they are talking specifically about google bots, Or spider bots in general.
But according to google dynamic pages could effect how well spider bots crawl the site.

**Gaffer Sports** · 02-11-2006, 10:26 AM

It is a common thing for people to say that Google does not like php or dynamic, but as some have mentioned here, dynamic url's are fine if you limit the paramaters.

Google claims that if there are too many paramaters the bot may stop, as it thinks it is promoting the same page.

As for PHP, google indexes the page as a browser would see it. PHP code is parsed before this point, so everything that google will see is static html.

**vangogh** · 02-11-2006, 02:39 PM

herbal use php to your heart's content. As has been mentioned above the search engines will see your page after it's already been parsed by the php engine so they'll basically be seeing static pages.

Google and the other search engines will also be able to index your dynamic pages fine. You probably want to keep the parameters in your urls to a minimum, but it's certainly ok to use a few and it's probably best to stay away from and id= in the url parameters.

As an example I've recently added a WordPress blog to my site which creates pages dynamically using php/mysql. Since I've added it Google has doubled the number of visits to my site and the pages are getting indexed rather quickly.