Search optimisation PHP or HTML?

[robbie71321]

I am wondering which is better for search optimisation:

 

1. Pages with a lot of the PHP "Include" commmand to provide the menus & the content

 

or

 

2. Full HTML pages without any PHP

 

Option 1. is preferred but i'm wondering if the search engines will "see" all the "files" that contain the content.

[newseed]

Server Side Inlcudes using either PHP or ASP will be rendered when the visitor visits a page. So option 1 is the right choice because it will render just like option 2 as far as what google and yahoo sees.

 

You can simply test this by display your web page with the php includes and then do a View Source via your browser. This is what search engines sees.

[robbie71321]

Thanks Newseed,

You explained it perfectly and I did the test ,

 

Excellent!!

[LSW]

There is no better as, as mentioned, the result is the same as the SE will see HTML. But No. 1 although not better for SEO, is easier on the developer and maintainer of the site.

[jlhaslip]

Have the best of both worlds... html pages produced by php scripting and use mod_rewrite for fancy URL's so it looks like an html page. Lots of CMS softwares use this approach.

 

check out sNews, Joomla, Drupal et al.