I see a lot of folks around here have their pages ending in php instead of html (like I've been doing). Is there any SEO benefit to this?

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They are both widely used formats, like .asp also. It refers to the language used to make the page.

It's how you use that language that affects SEO, not the language itself. To my knowledge, generally speaking, HTML is easier for spiders to read, but they both get read the same.

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Thanks Brandon. Since PHP pages denote more of a dynamic page, I was thinking that perhaps the search engines would treat it a little better - assuming that search engines like unique and changing content.

My CMS actually uses a component that hides the non-sef url and converts it to a friendly URL. So my pages are actually something like component&Itemid=1, etc., but I can make it say buyers.php or buyers.html without altering any of the code of the actual page itself.

But that's good that there really isn't a SEO benefit to either - I wouldn't want to make 301's for all those pages.

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Yeah, they are all different language and proprietary types.

To my knowledge (I love that phrase, its saying here are some facts, but if its wrong, its not my fault ) the spiders have a preset list of extensions that are considered sites. They just read through, with knowledge of the language.

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Search engines place no value on the page extensions. php, asp, .net, cf are all rendered to the browser/spiders as plain old html.

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Second what VRI said, there is nothing different from a SE perspective in terms of file extensions (html files are NOT easier to read that .php)

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Thanks guys! That's fully answers my question.

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I would even say that you can create your own file extension if you are using URL rewriting rules. Actually a friend of mine renamed all his extensions in .seo and got his pages indexed with no problem.

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Dynamic urls cause problems with search engines if they pass a ton of parameters, variables or are too long. Below is an example of a url that will not get indexed.

http://www.example.com/portal/!ut/p/...a+Travel+Claim

This site is an enterprise class CMS and huge. Needless to say getting SE friendly is a pain in the ....