Google and .php pages

[domainicanicanica]

Does Google spider and rank .php pages the same as .html pages? Is one more beneficial than the other?

Any thoughts are most welcome.

[zorag]

Considering the popularity of .php based sites, I would have thought that Google and others will have catered for the processing of .php pages just as much as .html, probably even more so.

What I still don't know is whether or not search engine spiders support <? php includes > for your header and footer. If not, your meta data, title, description etc.. won't be included in the crawl.

Anyone know ?

- Thanks

[Bender]

What I still don't know is whether or not search engine spiders support <? php includes > for your header and footer. If not, your meta data, title, description etc.. won't be included in the crawl.

the spiders won't see the <? php includes > at all, just the PHP script's output, wich is a normal HTML page.

Google does spider .php pages.
However, best results are achieved when you are using mod_rewrite to transform :
http://www.site.com/php-page.php?id=1&a=3
to
http://www.site.com/keyword1/keyword2.html

Good luck.

[zorag]

However, best results are achieved when you are using mod_rewrite to transform :
http://www.site.com/php-page.php?id=1&a=3
to
http://www.site.com/keyword1/keyword2.html

Good luck.

I'm with you on mod_rewrite but what do you mean by:
http://www.site.com/keyword1/keyword2.html

How does that work?

-Thanks

[Bender]

You can read about it here:
http://www.*********.com/article/guide-url-rewriting
or search for "search engine friendly URL" on google.