So, recently I was having a minor discussion with a coworker about .asp and how it relates to SEO...in other words, should webmasters shy away from asp pages? If so, why? Do non asp pages rank better than asp pages? Do you have proof, or is it just an obvious answer? What is a viable alternative? I would appreciate and value and feedback and/or discussion. I think there are a lot of sites out there using asp, and I'm sure many would appreciate an answer to this. Thanks!
It doesn't really matter, as long as the URLs are SEO friendly. If you're talking about URLs like 'page.asp?what=something' that's okay too. Google said that these kinds of URLs are okay too.
Thanks dmi, I appreciate the input. I guess also what I'm asking is - if a site is currently in .asp (and doesn't really need to be) and it is ranking well, is it worth changing? Obviously, we want the content to be less cluttered and more accessible to the spiders.
I have the same issue and am interested in other peoples input. I was recently given a site in .asp and at first i was like GREAT. I now need database access to change the meta/title on the subpages though. .ASP wouldn't be my first choice for a site to perform SEO on, but I feel like if we can get a better understanding of it we can have that much more to put on our resumes. So lets hear it!
There is no difference between .asp, .jsp, .php, or .html. They are simply different technologies to create the same thing...which is HTML. You can type it by hand or use a technology like .asp to make your HTML react dynamically to inputs to the page. Long story short, all the search engines see is the final HTML regardless of how you create it so there is no difference for SEO purposes.