[RESOLVED] Static vs. Dynamic

[chadsten]

I have a pretty simple question about dynamic pages vs. static pages. I realize that static pages are better because they are more pages to search, so things like blogs, e-commerce, etc. suffer a bit-but what about pages built of the simple dynamic principle of which all pages are like follows:

index.php?type=sometype
index.php?type=othertype

If I make sure to add all the pages to internal navigation as well as the sitemap files, is this really any different than creating copies of the 'template' page and naming them:

sometype.php
othertype.php

I hope I have asked the question correctly...TIA!

[purse9644]

Having any URL with a question mark is not good for SEO, when the search bots visit the site and find '?'s in the URL it immediately devalues it. Why? because they don't like session ID's and dynamic URL's can look very similar to session ID's. Unless you are in a very uncompetitive industry then you MIGHT get away with it. It's always good SEO practice to ensure that a site has search engine friendly URL's.

Having urls "/sometype.php" and "/othertype.php" you will be able to focus your keywords on "sometype" and "othertype". Plus not forgetting to insert them into the title tags and optimising incoming links for these keywords.

[chadsten]

Well that answers my question perfectly. I have been using the /sometype.php method thus far, and will continue to.

This might be a PHP question, but any way to 'fix' the URL of a site like that? I think I remember one that changes the URL... Thanks so much for the help!

[Justin]

you could always use mod rewrite to rewrite urls from

exmaple.com/page1 to index.php?page=page1

That is what I do and it seems to work well.

[chadsten]

Perfect. Thanks man.