Hi All, Does Google read php generated page as well as it does regular html? I am thinking of use EZDatabase for my next site. Thanks
It will read anything that doesn't require information to view the page... That doesn't make sense does it? I can't think of an example without rambling.. >.<
It depends on the sonctrustion of the page via queries from the database. In theory, there is no difference, the problems occur though when you have poorly constructed queries that cause the spider to time out. Spiders show more server respect to dynamic pages than flat html pages and as such will leave if they think the server is underload. Slow to respond pages simulate this, and it is for this reason mainly dynamic pages get left out. A page with 20 queries on it is going to be too complicated a url to read. rewriting helps this a bit though, but modrewrite places a load on server resources, so it can be an ever decreasing circle.
Make sure that you use something like Apache's Rewrite MOD though if your URLS have query strings in, because although Google seems to handle them okay - it is always better (and other Search Engine spiders may not be able to understand them) to have human readable URLs as much as possible.
Google does have the technical ability now to read all types of normal page asp, php cfm, htm, html etc, it can read javascript, but it can not pass link benefit to the links it finds, it can only add them to the index. The same is trus for flash to a point, it can not still understand the content though and treats a flash movie as a page in its own right. It is not the technical ability that is the problem though it is the things I pointed out in my post above, the server respect, and the multiple queries due to poor site construction.