Is having example.htm copy of example.php considered spam?

[djtaverner]

Hello,

I have a dynamically generated php site. I want to create html copies of the primary pages of the site to improve the chances of google spidering.

If google finds the example.htm copy of

example.php?bla=1&bla=2

and these pages are identical (as copy) is this considered spamming?

cheers

dave tav

[ukgimp]

Yes if you allow google to see both.

You could robots.txt out the duplicate pages, likly the dynamic ones.

You may wish to do it properly and go down the route of rewriting your urls to make them static so they would see:

example/bla/bla2.php

or many other possible combinations

[bagatell]

I have the same problem. Index.php is crawled and ranks well but none of the dynamic pages show in SERPs. I have copies that are now being crawled and with optimisation are gaining serps. Unfortunately the script is encrypted so I don't think I can mod_rewrite (or can I?). I'm relying on the fact that Google (at least) can't or wont crawl past the index.