php pages in search engines

[lesley]

Hello,

 

I have built a website with php pages. Does a search engine handle a PHP format during a search differently than a HTML page? Will that skew the search results? I am having difficuly making my pages show up in search engines so i thought this might be why.

 

Thanks

[jlhaslip]

The search engines use the html output that your php code generates, so, no, the source being php doesn't affect your search results.

There are many more factors which will be affecting the site search results.

 

Meeting the W3C standards for the code,

SEO friendly URL's,

good original content,

Searchword competition,

your site's age on the Inter-webs

 

are a few of the ones I can think of off the top of my head.