.PHP in urls, bad?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by SniperFox.com, Sep 13, 2007.

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    On the url's of a web site it has home.php?/home/blah/blah <- Its easy to set up url's like that but does it effect SERPS having the home.php? in the url bar? would it be alot better just to have /home/blah/blah
     
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    no its not bad even dp has .php in their link
     
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    People are always saying it's better to get rid of the .php? so it appears to search engines that the pages are static. I don't know for sure but I got rid of it just incase they're right. :)
     
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    infogle Prominent Member

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    I think this does not makes changes... otherwise... because as all are shifting to .HTML extension... from .PHP just look at the scenario people are actually renaming the extension with the use of .htaccess file

    so actually its only the matter of extension... and it makes no such sense to me... to actually rename... i have also had done this rename quite a time but making no sense... some of the pages of my website are still in .PHP extension and they are well crawled by SE...
     
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  5. SniperFox.com

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    i was actually reffering to the .php?/home bit. because its got the .php and question mark in the middle of the url is this going to lower the sites rank?
     
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    having .php or .html or even .aspx extension does not affect anything. But if you are talking of homepage it always better to point to domain name ( sitename.com) rather than the filename.
     
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    qazu Well-Known Member

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    The '?' in the URL used to be an issue, but it's not anymore. Google bot can navigate dynamic pages as long as there's not too many '&'s in the URL as in
    home.php?id=home&type=blah&name=blah&blah=etc.
     
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    I have always stuck to url rewriting via htacess. This way the urls look cool too.
     
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    Ok, thanks for the replies people :)
     
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