What is better for SEO, php or html?

[Rose]

So I (a very non-techy person), have landed the job of trying to optimize the company websites. Some people seem to work with html, others with php, and I'm wandering which is better (if any).

[Soren]

In my opinion both are equal once its done right it can be php or html the spiders that search your site actually read the site in a totally different way to what you see it.

[Jake]

Probably not a significant factor in itself, php is more associated with pages that are rendered on the fly, necessary for more complex sites and could be slower loading on a lousy shared server. Load time is a search ranking factor.

Here's a Google "on site SEO" guide
http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/se...-guide.pdf

This SEO authority has a tutorial series on SEO
http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

[SimonC]

It makes no difference - at least not directly. Search engine spiders will "read" your final pages, and these will be the same no matter what technology you use to create the pages. Basically html is "static" - the user gets the page from the server and it is the same every time. PHP is "dynamic" - the server creates a page on the fly, based on criteria specified at the time it is requested. But the end result (as delivered to the user) is still an html page.

The only difference, as someone else has hinted at, is that a poorly created php page or a low spec server, may make large or faulty pages that cannot be read by the spiders, thus affecting you search engine ranking. Having said that, poor html pages might be just as bad.

The main thing to concentrate on is content. If it is easy to use, well put together, properly described, and linked to from elsewhere on the web then your search engine ranking will be good.

[Reet]

As far as search engines concern they both are same. The only thing make difference is right skills either on HTML or PHP.

[Ronald]

HTML is still highly used in SEO,still big and prominent companies like Impyre has a good balance when it comes to both.I suggest that you consult them for more details.

[Gvk]

I'm using HTML only. Most of the sites are working HTML only..

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[Daniel]

HTML is better option in order to achieve better results for seo.

[Mark]

Rose.

PHP is a server side programming language. Whereas HTML is a client side language.

When you visit a PHP website, your browser will request a page and the server containing that website will run that particular PHP script. The PHP script will make decisions based on its programming and the result will be some HTML. The server then outputs the HTML.

Basically, when you visit a HTML page, your browser is sent some HTML.
When you visit a PHP page your browser is also sent some HTML.

PHP is NEVER sent to your browser!

A huge majority of websites use PHP as it is simply not possible to create dynamic websites using HTML (ie, anything that requires a database).

Google (and all) has no way of knowing whether your page is driven by PHP or by HTML and therefore in SEO terms it makes absolutely no direct difference.

My advice:

If you don't need your website to do much, and you want to code it yourself, then just creating static HTML pages will be fine.

A much better option though, would be to install Wordpress, since this is by far the easiest way to build a decent website with no technical knowledge.

FYI, wordpress runs on PHP.

In general the people who only work with HTML are simply the people who don't know PHP. To use PHP you need to know both HTML and PHP.