Search Engine Optimization with PHP
PHP is great for SEO it’s a fast server side language that is usually used with mysql
In creating relevant and fresh titles and while making simple modifications to many scripts its good to use PHP. Title tags of the page should reflect the page in true sense, for that SEO should pay special attention to this as on page factor.
PHP pages have a reputation of being more or less different to SEO than static HTML pages. Some time these questions come to mind of many webmasters. If I use PHP for my developing website will it be SEO compatible? And in PHP if use post method then will it be a problem? I mean the search engine spiders won’t be trapped? Yes, it will be indexed by search engines. File types don’t matter in ranking; PHP and HTML are treated equally. PHP is a server-side scripting language and is SEO Compatible. PHP is fully SEO compatible as far as I know this is because the search engines will see the output of the PHP and not the PHP code itself.
PHP is a server side scripting language that the most web developers use to create dynamic WebPages. When you call a PHP page from your browser the PHP code will be executed on the web server and the PHP parser will then send the HTML output to your browser. Developing your WebPages with PHP will not harm your Page Ranking and it is fully SEO compatible. I don’t see disadvantages of PHP in SEO.
What you have to keep in mind while SEO’ing your PHP pages is to create them in such way that they should behave like static pages. You can also use Apache to fake static looking URLs if you have a large site. Most SEO finds difficulty in getting their dynamic pages indexed because dynamic pages are created with GET variables. SEO peoples get irritated if search engine spiders reject cookies. Also avoid use of question mark in URL because google crawl those pages very slowly. A descriptive and catchy page title is one of the key elements of SEO – whether or not your site uses PHP – since it becomes the linked title of your search engine listing.
Few things SEO people should always keep in mind are:-
1) Code should be error-free and standards-compliant.
2) Make use of relevant keyword to your subject.
3) Enable other websites linking to your site with copy & paste code. Reciprocal links build partnerships and enhance page rank. But at the same time beware of link farms and spammy websites.
