Mindaugas Lipskas

While some professional webmasters still claim that PHP links with long structure (such as http://www.anydomain.com/directory/file.php?
parameter=number&option=value for example) are not indexed by major search engines or indexed not correctly, i’ve made some experiments to check it out.

It’s true, that long and hardcoded links (see an example above) are not so user friendly, but search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN and others are powerful and smart enough to index all the content under these links without any problems. I think you had an ability to check it yourself by doing some searches. And i’m 100% sure you saw hardcoded links placed at the top of search results several times at least. It just confirms: webmasters, who claim that hardcoded links are not indexed, are wrong. Spiders don’t care what links do you have. Spider has the only one task to do – index all the links it finds, but not to rate a link as good (user friendly) or bad (not so user friendly). So what the point to have a nice structure for your links? The experiment begins…

One of the first things every webmaster thinks about, is a question: How to build a complete website?

If it’s just a simple website containing few separate pages and some text only (personal homepage for example) you can take any free HTML editor (or just a Notepad) and simply start writing the code. When you need to update the content or add a little more information, it’s pretty easy – just open created HTML page using any HTML editor again and start editing. It‘s done. But let’s say you need to build a big website which contains not only a few lines of simple text, but also needs to be updated often. What’s the solution?