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barking mad -> does asp affect google ranking? (9/2/2008 12:55:15)

Simple question - but does anyone have the answer please?



TexasWebDevelopers -> RE: does asp affect google ranking? (9/2/2008 13:02:55)

no



ou812 -> RE: does asp affect google ranking? (9/2/2008 13:45:34)

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ORIGINAL: TexasWebDevelopers
no


To expand just a bit, the ASP, or PHP, pages are processed on the server and then sent to the client (browser) just as html (or whatever output you're doing). The extension .asp or .php tells the server to process the page at the server and interpret it as a server side code for processing prior to sending it to the client. So the browser, or google, can't really tell the difference. Of course, it could attempt to guess by looking at the extension, but then you could have an .asp page with only html in it! You can give it a try too, make an .asp page and then view the source while viewing in the browser.



Tailslide -> RE: does asp affect google ranking? (9/2/2008 14:09:32)

The only thing that might be an issue is if you have a url with a weird query string in it produced by the database - not totally sure if Google likes those.



barking mad -> RE: does asp affect google ranking? (9/2/2008 15:15:03)

I'm using some cms/blog software that allows me to create my own pages (so i've made them very friendly names) and teher are no parameters for these and for the blog page it simply refers to either a category id or article id so next to no long strings!

An SEO chap has suggested i rewrite my client's website using html pages and not asp. Easy for him to say as there are about 60 static pages and any number of articles.

I'm in agreement with the posts so far & I can't see what difference it it going to make.



TexasWebDevelopers -> RE: does asp affect google ranking? (9/2/2008 16:55:19)

A better question might be "How do I maximize Google rank when the pages are being generated by database calls?"
If you are already optimizing the pages well for Google (< strong > tags; < h 1, 2 3 > tags; keywords.) Then the next step is to make sure that the META description and Title Tags are working their best for you. On many CMS systems the temptation is to keep the same description and title "hard-coded" rather than to dynamically populate them from the database each time a page is called.
It is a simple matter to make the Blog title the page title also (if that is what will work for your site to optimize it properly).
Maybe something like this:
<title><%=(rsArticles.Fields.Item("myBlogHeadline").Value)%></title>
And to take the first 250 characters of the blog article and make it the description:
<meta name="Description" content="<%=(CropSentence(Do_StripHTML(myBlogHTML), 250, "..."))%>" />
The code above is from our own blog application and is not copy/paste for you, obviously.



rdouglass -> RE: does asp affect google ranking? (9/10/2008 8:33:46)

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An SEO chap has suggested i rewrite my client's website using html pages and not asp. Easy for him to say as there are about 60 static pages and any number of articles.


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Actually his point has merit and can be done without rewriting ther site except just the URLs.

I use a product called ISAPI Rewrite on Win servers that does exactly that. For instance, one of my sites I have URL's like this:

/companies-_Annapolis-380-Air_Conditioning-3.htm

and the ISAPI Rewrite passes this to the parser:

/result.aspx?CountyID=308&ServiceType=3

The browser and Google sees the first URL whereas IIS sees the second. And I pass all my parameters appropriately to result.aspx that is dynamic.

So I get the benefits of:

1. A 'static' url. Or at least it looks static to 'bots and such.
2. Keywords in the URL. Do *not* underestimate the value of keywords in the actual URL itself.

Basically the software re-writes all the header info and everything before it hit's the wire and can be even used to "mask" whole domains. Pretty powerful stuff actually.

In the SEO game, everything adds up.

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