ASP and PHP?

Is there any difference between them in search engine optimization?
How about the SERP of a site?
How do spiders look at them?
Please let me know what you need to know from me to enable you
to answer my question correctly.Thanks.

 

The extension doesn't affect how spiders will view the page. With mod_rewrite you can make up your own extensions and spiders will still view the pages the same. Server side scripts don't affect how pages are spidered, but complex variables and sessions in the URL -will- have a detrimental effect.

 

Thanks Art.
Any other thoughts?

 

PHP. Windows servers suck.

 

LOL..
Can I have more detailed answer just like what Art have told a while ago?

 

I don't think a php or asp website will make a difference in SERPS. Both search engines and people get the same output when accessing a webpage.

 

thanks for the reply.
Any other thoughts?

 

It makes no difference. I could make sites with any extension in the world using htaccess.

 

Thanks for the reply mad4.
Any other thoughts?

 

Hi khasmoth,

As what others have mentioned, it will make no differences in terms of SERP. Not only ASP and PHP, if you compare with other server side scripting languages such as Java, they still come back to the same thing.

Search Engines look at Client side

 

ASP is only available through Windows servers.

Windows servers are more expensive for hosting and less reliable than Linux servers which use PHP.

For reliability, affordability, and scalability PHP and Linux are the better options.

 

asp or php really doest matter alot but make sure that the url are also crawler friendly and it would be good if you could call words (keywords) rather then calling the numerics in the url... what say...

 

.php or .asp it doesn have any effect on serps...

 

Where you came from?
LOL

Anyway some of all who reply here are useful.Thanks for the reply.
Any other thoughts?Thanks.

 

Search engines don't care about your website design , and website programming... they care more (1000 times more) on quality of backlinks and anchor text used in anchors.


Numbers of backlinks is not such important... just the quality

 

Server side such as asp or php is much better than client side, such as javascript. If you're doing session tracking, use POST instead of GET to avoid having the big SID strings in the URL.

 

still PHP not because of SERP but ease of using it.

 

PHP and ASP make no difference, but I'd prefer PHP.

Also, just make sure whatever extension you have to go with, for your site, you stick to it. Because if you change your URLs from ASP to PHP after a year, or after 5 years, you'll have problems with the indexed pages of your site, unless you put redirects to cater for the change.

 

For me php and asp are same at seo. I also prefer php because of its ease and server support. Php enables me to write code for web based tools also.

In seo terms...php can be used to saperate the programming code from html code with the use of smarty. And now a days...we can have just html pages for search engines and visitors.....regardless to dynamica site or static site. We can use pure css based designing and smarty. So, designing and programming both are very important for seo.

 

I think he means that PHP performes its tasks faster than ASP.