.php files or .html files are best for SEO?

No, they are equal. Search engines don't discriminate based on file extensions.

 

so then if one was using "includes" to add in navigation and what not, it would be better to use PHP because when you view the source, it would display what was in that php include file. with the javascript method, it only shows for example...

<script language="JavaScript" src="include-top.js"></script>

Code (markup):

as where a php include would then display the actual code inside the file. which would then be better for SEO.

so is that thinking the correct way to see it?

 

if you use Javascript navigation then make sure that you use text links at the bottom of each and every page because search bots cant index links in Javascripts.

Akash Kumar

 

I think PHP is better than HTML, because with .php files we can include files and they serve as reusibilty factor in SEO, for eg if you have 1000's of pages in a site and all are .php files and if you want to change any link or some content which is present in all the pages, .php include files serves a easy solution to replace in one file will be incorporated in all the files where as in .html either you have to replace the code or do it manually per page. Try and adopt .php which serves a better long term benefit as well.

 

Just for good measure, Both html and php are fine

i agree with people who said that

 

Both are good for SEO, no difference at all. It depends on what type of content they display.

 

.php & .html both are good .it also depends on the way of use.

 

same question from me, in between aspx and html which is good for seo purpose.

 

go with both i guess that google is give same important to both extension well my websites is running on both extension smoothly..

 

php or html are the same as long as the the urls are user-friendly and contain keyword to your webpage. So, if your php page is like
yourscript.php?x=d&y=u&k=3222 compares to my-y-k.html, then yeah your html page would be better.
Use php only if your web page has php code that needs to be parsed.

 

You are correct that you should not include your navigation with javascript. That is not good for SEO since the search engines have a difficult time following links within javascript.

 

.php, .asp, .html... all will preform the same if the content is the same
in otherwords, it doesn't matter at all.

 

I don't think it makes much difference, only exception is if the server doesn't allow PHP

 

.html is matchless. I always prefer this one for my website. I can bet that it is seo and search engine friendly

 

Both is valid for the search engine but I preferred .HTML

 

Makes no difference aslong as you use seo freindly URL's, but you said your not planning on using dynamic urls anyway.

You could always opt for using multiveiws and hav no file extensions at all, the file extension makes no difference at all, and in terms of coding the search engine sees it makes no difference really either as PHP is delt with server side and the spiders will only read the html output anyway.