SE Question. static vs templates
 

Does it matter if I load my pages with a php template..

index.php?alison

or better to have real pages?

/pornstar/a/alison/

hopfully this isnt a stupid question.

/please/bend/over/for/me/sweetie/

google came out and said recently that it prefers that people don't mod rewrite url's and that it would possibly be better for your search results if you didn't rewrite

your still alive? thought the new kids in your life would have you dead by now.

d-null, this is not exactly what they said :) All they said is that you can do more harm with poorly rewritten URLs than if you just live them as they were. But yes, they wrote this in such a misleading way :)

Take what the people from google tell you with a grain of salt..

guess we should try to find the link so that everyone can interpret it as they like, but it seemed to me when I read it that they were responding to the fact that so many people worry about mod rewriting wordpress urls to supposedly be more search engine friendly and they were trying to put the point across that it didn't make any difference.... I could have misinterpreted their intention though

idiots.....google also constantly tells people misleading and wrong info to get them to do what they want

google isn't the ONLY search engine.... if you really want in good with all search engines you won't use "templates" you'll just have all the CONTENT without pretty looks :)

It may not be the only search engine but its the only one with traffic AND the only one worth mentioning.

Anyone with serps on all 3 can see this.

i've not seen that, how can it tell if a url is rewritten?

Matt Cutts is using mod rewrite for his wordpress blog.

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:2 cents:

Exactly what I said. Dont believe everything they say. Take it with a grain of salt

Somebody up there just posted a link to it. I think the main problem is people are reading this party only:

But obviously they should read on:

In the article there are a few examples of poorly rewritten URLs which could cause crawling problems.

A comment to this article that I like very much is this one:

I couldn't agree more, what about you?

Google likes html static pages over active but also likes updated original content. So if you can update your site weekly with a static page then that would be the best. But in reality active is needed to keep the site active.

thanks for the info.