Making PHP SEO Friendly
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Although dynamic scripting languages are great for reducing automated tasks on your website, they aren’t always great for getting good search engine rank. There are many SEO pitfalls that the webmaster must take into account when using the dynamic scripting language PHP. Session ID’s, dynamic urls and slow database queries are the biggest offenders for keeping your site from being crawled more frequently. Robert Stringer at SEOChat.com gives some solutions to these problems so you can get those spiders crawling your site in no time.
You want to convince search engine spiders to crawl your pages frequently. You need to put in keyword-rich, dynamic content to help convince the spiders to check your pages regularly. Unfortunately, many spiders trip over dynamic pages. How do you fix this problem? Use PHP to give your dynamic pages static-looking URLs. Roger Stringer explains how to do it.
PHP is a useful language, used by many all over the Web. But it has one failing. By its nature, it is not search engine friendly. In fact, it’s the exact opposite. But with some clever tweaking, we can make PHP a powerful tool in the quest for search engine dominance.
Proper search engine optimization can make PHP even look like a different script. You could make it look like an HTML file or several HTML files, one for each article on your site.
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2 Comments
Tim Mathews
January 29th, 2007
at 10:21am
This article in its entirety, is a fantastic addition to the SEO & SEM industry’s knowledgebase.
Catherine Ellis
June 24th, 2008
at 2:00am
It just seems that the reliance of google and SEO to get traffic to your site actually hinders websites to be more creative in regards to PHP.