Php script and SE

[msanchez]

Hi

I have been working on installing a php link script and right now Im parsing the php into a plain html page.

So I just wonder if the google bot thinks this is ok or it doesnt like it?

If it doesnt like php in a plain html page what would be the best way to use a php based link script?

Thanks for the replies

[pornoTGB]

I have no problems with that.. if I understand 'parsing the php into a plain html page' correct..
the only problem I have in connection with SEs is that some dynamic pages will not recieve a page ranking (but the warning page does) since my hard-links contains a header variable in order to bring the user to the correct page..
sample: pornotgb.com/?page=home
seems as if page=home gets ignored..

about the link list.. I wrote myself a script that when I accept the link trade it simply writes it into a file where all my links are located.. that file later gets included by a php file

[msanchez]

Thanks for the reply. When Im looking at the source code for my page it seems like its including the the link fine so I dont think there will be a problem but just wanted to ask more experience folk.

Cheers

[cd34]

There is a theory that google looks at the page creation time, and that any page parsed with php always resets that timestamp to the current time (since there was dynamic content and the page was generated just then). it is possible that google MIGHT pick this up.

I do know that a while back, I had better luck using .htm/.html than .phtml/.php/.pl/.cgi and urls with ? and & in them appear to do worse than urls without.

[Leon]

i think google defenetly prefer static pages and not dynamic , but i also seen lots of php and cgi sites have amazing ranking
its a good thing to put a last update date on the page and make sure nothing is loaded randomly on that page

[wankmaster]

If it were really critical I would think someone would have just patched Apache to fool the spiders. The spiders can only see what comes down the HTTP stream, so in theory you can pump out whatever you like. Timestamps, HTTP headers etc.

I could be wrong. It wouldn't be the first time.

[Atol]

i asked around about php and serps a while ago, and i have been told that php doesn't affect rankings negatively at all.
if anything, it picks up more keywords when you have keywords behind the question mark. IE: index.php?keyword

can't say for sure though, search engines are weird.

[tickler]

I have the PHP scripts actually write out HTML pages. It really doesn't take that much more coding.