SEO and Link Pages 1

[k4ghg]

I am setting up a dynamic links page with PHP and a flat file database. Does anybody know if this would impact my search engine rankings because the bots will not be able to identify the link pages. If this has no impact to me becaues the bots are only interested in links coming in, would folks want to trade with me because their link would be on a dynamic pages? Thanks... Ronnie

 

[johnwm]

Whether the page is static HTML or generated with PHP and a database, it still gets served to browser as an HTML page. Unless you have prevented the bot from reading the page it will be unaware of whether the page is static or dynamic.

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[k4ghg]

Thanks, so if I understand correctly, if I have a page link.php, which pulls urls from a flat file, the search engine will read the urls as links (even though they reside in a txt file).

 

[johnwm]

It's simple to check - just do a <view source> on the page in question. You will see that it is (or should be!) straight HTML.

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