General Help of PHP in SEO

peterlee1768

Is PHP helpful in search engine optimization? If yes then how?

dalecosp

Of course. What's important for SEO? Think about it.

Dynamic titles, dynamic META tags (description, keywords) are fundamental to "SEO".

In addition, you can use PHP to generate sitemaps automatically.

NogDog

Only if you're using it to generate good SEO content. The fact that you use PHP versus any other server side language (or for that matter of herd of authors to manually create content) is immaterial.

dalecosp

If you're comparing PHP to $lang, true; the gist of SEO is that a page be useful to the visitor. So, whatever you use, make it user-friendly. But if it's a DB driven site, chances are that you'll want to generate some page attributes dynamically, so PHP's good at that.

I know it sounds like I'm disagreeing ... I'm not ... I think we just took two different tacks on the same question, which, on the surface, seems inane ... like we're doing someone's homework.

Or do you suppose there's some steganography going on with these Augusta posters?

You did see my answers in white above, right? 😃

NogDog

I was really just replying to the OP, not you. 🙂

Or was I?

Send $20 to NogDog.

Now!

dalecosp

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peterlee1768

dalecosp@! I agree with you but the term you uses 'DB driven site" means what?

peterlee1768

NogDog@! Thanks for your response.

laserlight

peterlee1768 wrote:
the term you uses 'DB driven site" means what?

A website that uses a database for content storage and retrieval, e.g., a content management system or even this message board.

peterlee1768

Ok laserlight thanks.

Actually I am confuse about relative URL and absolute URL. In navigation menu which one is better from SEO point of view relative URL or absolute URL? Can you elaborate in brief?

dalecosp

If I understand your question correctly, I shouldn't make any difference in a navigation menu; most companies operating Search Engines are smart enough to create systems that can navigate your website whether your link HREFs include "http://www.mysite.com", and when they print URLs in SERPs, the correct path is given. It's also a non-issue in the browser, as long as the HREF points to an actual & retrievable resource, because the browser assumes that a link to "/somepage.php" refers to the site/domain that's currently being viewed. It would only matter if the link is to another domain. Obviously, if I'm at foo.com/somepage.php, and you wish to offer me a link to bar.com/anotherpage.php, it's not going to work properly to assign the HREF as "anotherpage.php" or "/anotherpage.php".

If you're really confused about this, maybe you should just read about URLs.

I do know that some tools expect you to NOT duplicate content on "foo.com" and "www.foo.com". IIRC, you use "Canonical URLs" for this purpose.

paknoukri

You can use php as well as html pages for good on page SEO and that can be done by rewriting your url in php like you are seeing phpbuilder board url links.

peterlee1768

Thanks to all. Means there is no hard & fast rule for use of relative url and absolute url. Actually I see the major sites that they are using relative url But I am not sure which one is best for SEO point of view.