Hi,I'm just a noob.. hope you guys can help me a bit here.. I'm thinking of optimizing a certain keyword and most of my competitors' sites that ranked high with that keyword are in .html form. My site is a wordpress blog, is it possible to rank better than them with a .php page rather than html?
in wordpress you have some choices for permalinks Common options: Default » http://parkyourdots.com/?p=123 Date and name based » http://parkyourdots.com/2006/03/25/sample-post/ Numeric » http://parkyourdots.com/archives/123 Custom, specify below one of the options in the middle will help you get indexed better
oh thanks... i'm using the /archives/2006/03/.../ permalinks before this, i have html pages for my site, but later i decided to change my main site to a blog, so I'm wondering whether it would more difficult my site to get indexed and also rank well.
The page extension does not matter ONE BIT for SEO. The ONLY difference between static and dynamic pages are 1. response times can cause the spider to leave spidering if it considers the server to be under heavy load (server respect). 2. too many parameters (query strings) in the url can cause a spider to choke, or back out. Apart from the technical differences between dynamic language pages and static pages there is ABSOLUTELY no difference.
I agree... its only between Static and Dynamic... as long as your page is Static and the BOT doesnt have any difficulty crawling your site.. you dont have anything to worry.
To my knowledge, no extension is given preference over another. To my knowledge, file naming does not have an affect on getting "indexed". IMO, for permalinks in WP you're better off with: /%postname% ...which would look something like: http://parkyourdots.com/title-of-your-post Also, you might change your "Title" in WordPress to: <title><?php wp_title('', display); ?></title>
when i am given choice b/w .php pages and .html pages, i would definitely go for making static html to make seo friendly, no matter how hardwork it takes. I would definitely mo-rewrite the urls to generate static pages.
WHY? Mod rewriting places load on the processor and memory, while static HTML pages do not. Mod rewriting will slow down response times and in the case of a borderline slow site, could be the straw that makes the spider back out because of slow response times. Mod rewrite should only be used if needed IMO. What you also have to realise with mod rewrite, is that you are serving up dynamic pages as static, so the spider will not show any server respect for the site and might well hammer the server to buggery. Use it wisely. dynamic pages are already SEO friendly if the underlying code is well written.
Its surprising how many php CMS aren't - you'd think the developers would build it into more of the templates. vBulletin, PHPBB and some WP templates leave a lot to be tinkered with out of the box to improve their SEObility.