This SEO question appears on most SEO forums from time to time and is another generally misunderstood SEO topic and one all SEO consultants should understand. What’s a static HTML page? The classic static web page is generated from an actual page ‘physically’ located on the server: so if you had a page named static-page.html somewhere on your server you could find and download this page (it exists, you could grab it via FTP). The very first websites all used static HTML pages and so the first search engines cut their teeth on static web pages. What’s a dynamically generated web page? As the web developed a new way to generate websites arrived, dynamically generated web pages. They differ from […]
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Matt Cutts SEO
hi
Yes, I saw Matt cutts Says that.
Regards,
How to Convert a Dynamic Site to Static
There are tools that can do that:
Converts an entire dynamic site into a static site while SEOing the web-pages.
It gives you nice RAR file with all the static pages to upload anywhere you like.
SEO Myth : Google Hates Dynamic URLs
Excellent comments. I had not thought about the ‘index.php’ being a wasted word.
Also, Drupal has an excellent mod-rewrite module in it that I find very appealing.
I have some articles I’ve written on this subject, including, google hates dynamic URLs, the History of Session IDs and SIDs are Spider Killers that you may find interesting.
Do Search Engines Regard a WordPress Post Ending .HTML as a Static HTML Page?
Hey there! Thanks for this site and for offering so many tips.
Just one question: Do the search engines regard a POST (with a permalink structure setup so that posts look like www.domain.com/post_name.html) as a static HTML page?
When I add a post with my permalinks setup like this, it appears to me (looking at the URL) that it is a unique page within the site, but does Google see it the same way?
I ask because I want to properly optimize my site and I know that each PAGE should be optimized around only one main keyword. I’m just not sure if creating posts optimized around on main keyword would be indexed by the search engines the same as if I had created a new page all together, or if I should create new PAGES rather than posts…
I interpret your explanation here as that any WordPress based site is essentially just a one-page site, with that page dynamically generated. Thus a POST is essentially the same as a PAGE in this context. That said, when one uses WP to ‘add a page’, is WP actually creating a second instance of the template, thus the site now really has two pages? Not sure what the SEO benefit of this would be if Google interprets the post as a page anyway??
Thanks so much in advance!
Carrick
Do Search Engines Regard a WordPress Post Ending .HTML as a Static HTML Page?
WordPress Static HTML Page?
I loved Carrick’s question. Could anyone knowledgeable reply? Carrick, what did you learn regarding your question?
Google Sees mod_rewrite URLs as Static URLs
Google sees a static HTML page when you use software like WordPress that by default uses dynamic URLs, but can be setup to show static like URLs.
So yes Google sees a page like /post_name.html as static even if the ‘real’ URL is /?=page1.
You’ve misinterpreted my explanation regarding WordPress.
Although WordPress is created using a set of theme files (could in theory be from one theme file) that are combined together with a database to form as many pages/posts you’ve created: so a WordPress site with 20,000 posts has the same number of files on the server as one with 2 posts, the posts/pages do not physically exist on the server.
Even if you didn’t use the SEO permalinks option in WordPress, Google will still index each page/post as an independent page, because each one has a unique (dynamic) URL and unique content (if the content isn’t unique you’ll have issues).
Basically it doesn’t make any difference. Google doesn’t care if you have an actual static page, a static like URL (created dynamically, but using mod_rewrite so looks static: note Google etc… can’t tell the difference between an actual static page and a mod_rewrite static like page) or a dynamic URL, Google can still find and index it as a unique page and all three types can rank high as well.
The only important factors with dynamic vs static is spidering speed (static and static like are spidered faster) and static/static like can be better SEO’d:
basically
keyword-rich-page.html
Is better SEO wise than the dynamic equivalents like
index.php?page=1
or
index.php?page=keyword+rich+page
But all three would be spidered and ranked by Google as unique pages as long as they have mostly unique content.
David
Google Sees mod_rewrite URLs as Static URLs
Stallion WordPress Theme SEO Super Comments
There’s dynamic URLs for the comments now on this site and they will be indexed by Google.
The comment above of mine has a link at the bottom to https://stallion-theme.co.uk/seo-static-html-vs-dynamic-urls/?cid=44879
I’m using a WordPress feature that is part of the Stallion Responsive SEO Package called SEO Super Comments and it uses larger comments to create pages like the one above.
Give it a week and you’ll find that page will be indexed in Google, try a site search to see-
site:https://stallion-theme.co.uk/ ?cid=You can see over thousands of comments have an individual page indexed in Google.
Search Google for “WordPress Multi-Site SiteMap Page Template” and one of the comments is number top 5. Another comment page is top 10 for “WhiteHat SEO PR Sculpting”, so Google ranks them.
David
Stallion WordPress Theme SEO Super Comments
Static vs Dynamic WebPages
i ve better understood about the diff b/w static and dynamic webpages
Static HTML SEO
Static URLs ending in .htm or .html get the best seo results.
We did an experiment and .asp pages didn’t rank as high.
Static URLs SEO Test
@ Dale of SEO Grader
How can you tell that Static URLs ending in html ranks higher.
Is there some certain indicators?
Dynamic URLs are those that ends with PHP, right?
SEO Static URL and Dynamic URL Footprints?
Is there a specific footprint to look for when trying to determine static (html) pages versus dynamic (php or asp) pages? I ask since mod_rewrite is used by dynamic pages to appear static. Since the search engine robots know the difference, I’d like to know to. Would I be able to find this code in the source code? I know that the footprint for WordPress is easily found in the source code.
Thanks in advance
SEO Static URL and Dynamic URL Footprints?