PHP CMS or ASP CMS

[Mark]

Hello,

While reading about PHP and ASP a small question arose in my mind, so just thought to discuss the topic here.
My question is does it matter in search engine optimization whether you use PHP or ASP for your CMS?

[sanderson]

In my opinion there shouldn’t be any difference.

Google or other search engines don't consider about the language you are using at your end.

The only concern is how the page is represented in front of them.

If you take care of dynamic URLs, with the help of mod_rewrite under Apache you can convert them into static URLs, then there is no issue at all.

[Martin]

IMO, No it does not matter for the search engines. Yes it does matter how good you are in any one of them. Your web pages should be search engine friendly to get indexed.

[kev woodman]

The Google spider isn't going to care about the underlying technology as it has no relevance to the quality of the search results.

[Administrator]

You cannot say that the search engine results have no quality. Out of 10 keywords you search you will find at least 5 relavant search. Take a look at google.com/search?q=failure&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&client=firefox-a and see if the results are genuine or not.

I would say that shtml gets more priority than php & asp. If you design your new website with .shtml webpages then those pages would show better ranking in google in comparision with php and asp pages. This results got justified when one of our developer was coverting our website to shtml and the directory where he stored those pages got indexed somehow and those pages were getting listed above the php pages of main website.

[kev woodman]

Sorry Admin - don't get the bit about the results.

SHTML should score more highly than a .php page because these pages are essentially just HTML. If you used any technology combined with a templating system - so that the output was PHP/ASP flavoured HTML rather than, say, a PHP file echoing HTML tags, then the effect should be the same. I'd guess that what is important is the file extension rather than the technology itself.

[paul]

I find the viewpoint of admin is valuable. What I see here if you use shtml, you can be able to control your page layout and by using SSI you can add dynamically generated content to an existing HTML page, without having to serve the entire page via a CGI program, and so on if you provide good, SE friendly internal HTML text links within your site, crawlers more likely follow those links.

[harry]

That's great

But before going for SHTML i would suggest you to check first whether your host provide you with SSI (server side includes)
if it is provided it should be enabled.
Not all CMS hosting companies provides SSI on their server.