Google friendly portal system in PHP

Beginner wants help

[artokon]

I have got a problem. My website is very well positioned in Google (number 1 for most keywords witch I need), but is in HTML. Because website is very big (more than 500 articles, new 20 every month), and updating it in HTML is a nightmare, I want to change to PHP.

And this is my problem – which free portal system I should choose? Which one is the most “google friendly”? I know only few which have strange file names (for example name.php?lotsofletters or name.php?=name.

And if I know correctly, Google have some problems in positioning such files.

I will be very, very grateful for all yours help.

[mincklerstraat]

If your site can make use of simple weblog software, there's wordpress. If you really want a full-blown content management system, find one that has short-url support built in (postnuke's latest version has this option if it's in your webroot; others will either have it as a built-in option, or have a 'hack' available using mod_rewrite and output buffering - mambo siteserver is very popular on this board, you might want to have a look at that). You can try googling php cms "short url".

[artokon]

And what do you thing about portal system like this?

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For Google that´s looks like HTML and in theory should have better position than typical PHP.

[edited by: coopster at 4:10 pm (utc) on Nov. 15, 2004]
[edit reason] removed urls per TOS [webmasterworld.com] [/edit]

[Slade]

Go take a look at the various content management solutions that are available. If you find one that you like, review the URLs that it generates. If they don't already look the way you would like, search G some more to see if there are hacks to change them to be more search engine/user friendly.

If you decide to roll your own template system, you'll need to look at .htaccess and mod_rewrite. You should find many, many threads on using mod_rewrite on this board.

I have two or three different codebases where I wrote my own templating system. I've been meaning to pick the best features of each and build a newer/better version, but I've just not had the time or a good reason to work on it...