dynamic urls

index.php is a dynamic or static url

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Hi there guys.

I have read in many forums that dynamic urls can be a problem for the search engines and many not rank as high as a static url can.

www.myweb.com/dir/page.html is a static url and
www.myweb.com/index.php?page=keyword is a dynamic url

but a simple or plain php url is called static or dynamic.
for example.
www.myweb.com/dir/dir/page.php is a static or dynamic url?

and www.myweb.com/dir/page.html is better than www.myweb.com/dir/page.php?

[rocknbil]

SEO can be a natural as understanding reading (for the most important parts.) :-) What URL is the most informative on the subject?

www.myweb.com/dir/page.html (yawn)
www.myweb.com/dir/my-tractor-is-sexy.html
www.myweb.com/dir/blah.php?page=my-tractor-is-sexy
www.myweb.com/dir/my-tractor-is-sexy.php
www.myweb.com/dir/my-tractor-is-sexy/

See the difference? IMO the second, third, and fourth offer no more weight than the last. The first though . . . how often have you gone to google and just entered the word "page"? My point is, static URL's can be every bit as worthless as dynamic ones.

When you read these kinds of things, what they are generally talking about are two things. Long anonymous query strings with no intelligible meaning:

mypage.php?a=3&w=12345&srch=sexy+tractors&blah=yawn&legible=no&why+not=because+I+red+it+on+duh+internets

The second is unique query strings that may or may not ever be repeatable:

mypage.php?e=23443534Gtdsss&SESSID=3455DFSGDFg456efgdsfsdf456456456fdfdsgsgd56345634

Many, many, MANY dynamic URL websites do extremely well because the URL's remain the same - but more importantly, the content on the page overrides anything they *might* lose from a query string URL. Compared side by side,

www.myweb.com/dir/blah.php?page=my-tractor-is-sexy
www.myweb.com/dir/my-tractor-is-sexy/

The second might do a *little* better than the first. But it's nothing to write home about; URL's are not a magic bullet.

A comparative argument: which is better?

example.com/My_keywords_here
example.com/My-keywords-here

Everyone says use dashes . . . Matt Cutts discusses it deeply on his blog . . . someone here did an A/B test, and his/her tests proved dashes did better, but only marginally. So what you're asking is the similar: if it's in your power, take the advice. But not doing so won't absolutely kill you.