Hey DP friends! I've been doing some reading and came across an interesting section of an interesting little book. I thought I'd type it out for everyone to read. Maybe it'll be of use for some. I found it a good explaination as to why not build a site purely in ASP or PHP. Tell me what you thinK! ---------------------------------------------------------- A Content Management Systems is usually implemented as a collection of scripts. These retrieve data based on some parameters passed as part of the Uniform Resource Locator (URL). As an example the following link could be on the homepage of a website. It calls the content script located in the home directory of the website: www.mydomain.com http://www.mydomain.com/content.php?sotry=137&lang=en Judging by the file extension, the script is written in the PHP programming language. The script is passed two parameters: story and lang. These are set to 137 and en respectively. The script would probably go to a database and retrieve the content using these two parameters as a key. Finally the program wraps the content in HTML and returns I t to the user. This type of URL is called dynamic and these are probably the first thing to tackle as some search engines find them hard to read, especially where a number of parameters are used. Google will index (spider) dynamic URLs but claims that it will do this more slowly as generating dynamic content puts a load on the web server. The new MSN search will only spider up to an absolute maximum of 5 query terms. They are worried about spider traps. This is where the search engine robot gets stuck crawling through every permutation of the query parameters. Written by David George, The ABC of SEO
Tell me something that we don't know. My site is asp and if you use url rewrite you can change extensions and variable to .html