I have just designed a website database driven.

When opening the index.php page it will read the page and content from the database. When you click on a link it opens index.php?pgname=name which will reload the same page with the appropriate content and information for the clicked on link.

I have started to wonder if having this setup will "hurt" me with search engines like google.

Will the search engine beable to read the link and follow the link?

If anyone can help, that would be great.

Will the search engine beable to read the link and follow the link?

Yes there will be no problem in indexing the link but its always better to use the static looking like url's.

Try using mod re-write to make the urls look static.

Just so we're clear, it keeps referencing the SAME index.php file only changing the $_GET variable $pgname=pagename. Depending the value of $pgname, it will populate the appropriate page.

ALSO:

With regards to the mod rewrite, could you please provide further information as to how/why to do this? Are you suggesting instead of typing "http://www.domain.com?pgname=services it would show up in the address bar as http://www.domain.com/services ??

Wouldn't I also then have to setup redirects? To redirect from www.domein.com/services to http://www.domain.com?pgname=services
??

Thanks.

Just so we're clear, it keeps referencing the SAME index.php file only changing the $_GET variable $pgname=pagename. Depending the value of $pgname, it will populate the appropriate page.

Thats what its suppose to be doing.

With regards to the mod rewrite, could you please provide further information as to how/why to do this? Are you suggesting instead of typing "http://www.domain.com?pgname=services it would show up in the address bar as http://www.domain.com/services ??

Yes

Wouldn't I also then have to setup redirects? To redirect from www.domein.com/services to http://www.domain.com?pgname=services
??

There should not be any redirect and your www.domein.com/services this page will serve the purpose of http://www.domain.com?pgname=services. See the urls here and it should give you some idea.

The links will be helpful to you.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html

Thanks
Shabbir

Yeh, shabbirbhimani is right.

It wont hurt you at all, but some search engines like you to use static URL's. Google is happy with dynamic URL's as long as there isnt too many parameters.

Looking at your example URLs that you have provided, you will be fine.

I agree with everything above and also wanted to add that you should try to avoid the parameter id= in your urls

Google has that stated explicitly somewhere within their pages and I think the other search engines will often ignore pages with an id parameter in the url.

Thank you for your help.