Is PHP in hrefs followed by se spiders?

[Jon_King]

I've been given a site to optimize where all the links are PHP references. This site has been up a long time (years)and is listed in Google w/o backlinks from internal pages. I assume because spiders and bots don't follow PHP? If so how does one deal with this sort dynamic page problem?

[andreasfriedrich]

Indeed, spiders and bots do not follow PHP. But luckily there is no need for them to do. The PHP gets executed before the server sends the document to the spiders, bots and user agents.

The lack of backlinks may result from the internal pages having a PR of 3 or lower.

Andreas

[Lisa]

Do you mean links like href="/news.php?article=47", bots can crawl those. But bots like Google may not bother if your PR is to low.

[Jon_King]

Yes Lisa, exactly. I think this one is strange. It's a 250 page site with one internal page with a PR5. The rest of the pages have no PR, not even the home page. But all pages have a cached snapshot in G.