incrediBILL - 3:29 pm on Jul 22, 2005 (gmt 0)

I have been playing around with Smarty to produce dynamic pages. Is there anything wrong with having redwidgetdisplay.php bluewidgetsisplay.php

Absolutely nothing wrong with that, but I would use Apache rewrite rules so the outside world sees "redwidgetdisplay.html" instead of "redwidgetdisplay.php". Masking the technology can save you from many headaches, especially when a vulnerability is found in PHP (which happened not too long ago) the hackers won't immediately spot your web site as a target.

Won't this harm search engine rankings? Unless you mean formatting your dynamic urls to not use querystrings (like webmasterworld does).

Won't harm your rankings the way I do it, or the way WebmasterWorld does it.

The media bot won't think "my_display_page_2.html" and "my_display_page_3.html" are the same and just tacking a number onto the end doesn't seem to impact the SERPs at all.