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[xtsy]

its not programming question but , it html better than PHP, asp, pages for search engines.Do static pages get better ranking than dynamic pages?
thanks

[Rich2k]

Not at all.

Some of the search engines don't like query strings e.g. something.php?something=something

But there aren't many that don't read query strings these days.

[iWeb David]

Try to avoid session IDs, as they're not indexed by search engines (pages with sessions aren't actually linked to any search-engine-recognizable URL).

Also, Google has stated that the term "ID" in a URL is a red flag for them, so try to avoid that (try something like forumid=x).

[Rich2k]

Well try to avoid session IDs on a public site, you don't need to avoid them on sites that require logins (as the logged in pages don't need to be indexed anyway).

[xtsy]

Thank you guys.but I have seen many sites doing fine in Search engines mainly google has HTML rather than PHP or asp.This may be because These languages are generally new than HTML and there are more sites with HTML.
My site was in no11 and now its droped to 33 after I changed the site to all php.Same pages but with PHP extension.I did everything I did with HTML but still unable to get back to postion where I was.

[KDAWebServices]

That's just google, you'll find that it would probably have happend had you stuck with .htm extension.

[Rich2k]

Just because a file has a .html extension doesn't mean it is HTML.

Just because a file has a .php file extension doesn't mean it is PHP.

I have a number of files on my site that appear to have a .xml file extension but it's just a reference 'hidden' query string.