Can your data base effect the deapth of the search

PHP site with links to HTML pages

[Travel_man]

Hi

I have a number of sites which are 'pure' PHP constructions. We use the my SQL data base to power a number of HTML URLs. Although we have made a lot of changes ie new pages/material etc, the googlebot has not visited since 11 Jan.

Can anyone suggest a reason and also what are your opinions on PHP sites.

I have a competitor who only uses PHP and he is getting excellent placement for his keywords

Thanks

Travelman

[jatar_k]

As long as you stay away from long get strings (or no get strings all together) and keep session ids out of the url you shouldn't have any spidering problems. Those are the two problems that frequently arise with dynamic sites in general.

I am not the most avid follower of crawl/fresh/update dates so I wouldn't be the best one to answer that. I would think that the ranking issues have more to do with standard optimization issues as opposed to your use of php.

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[Travel_man]

Thanks Jatar_K. That makes things clearer for me.