Forum SEO - Dynamic or static pages?

dWhite · 01-05-2009, 09:42 AM

If you own a forum, what do you think provides a better SEO for you, dynamic php or static html pages?

Jeremy80 · 01-12-2009, 01:31 PM

Static html pages would be better for a couple of reasons:
-the lack of a database connection could speed up your forum preventing any time outs or inaccessibility issues
-the static html pages could include good keywords in the urls

A dynamic forum can still do well, but it would typically wouldn't have search engine friendly urls. The url query strings can cause indexing problems for some search engines.

ericjover · 01-12-2009, 04:50 PM

Dynamically generated pages are fine if you can have search-engine friendly URLs.

shakir · 01-13-2009, 01:19 AM

Me too prefer static generated page like CMS.. Will be very fast and not error like timeout, But the only thing is if its generated dynamically the page URL should not rewrited..

phoenix06007 · 01-13-2009, 02:30 AM

Dynamic pages uses special programming language such us PHP, ASP, Perl to output a required result based on the user query, example is the myspace browse function you set the gender, the age, location and the program will generate a new page containing all users based on your query. while the static pages is just an HTML file.

zeruel · 01-13-2009, 04:10 PM

I bet forums works good on dynamic pages...

LailaScott · 01-14-2009, 02:11 AM

is there a forum that was built on static? i think all forums are dynamically made.

codecs · 01-14-2009, 05:37 AM

I like static forums more because it loads much faster than the dynamic forums and it is search engine friendly. I guess the static forums are those forums that has an extension of html.

zeruel · 01-14-2009, 05:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by codecs

I like static forums more because it loads much faster than the dynamic forums and it is search engine friendly. I guess the static forums are those forums that has an extension of html.

Not at all. Even if a page is a static page. It can be changed in .htaccess file using mod_rewrite to convert it from .php to .html extension.

And I don't think dynamic or static pages is an issue.

farhan713 · 01-14-2009, 10:33 AM

dynamic is the way to go.......

Jeremy80 · 01-14-2009, 12:05 PM

I like how people in favor of dynamic forums gave no reason why they think it is better. I guess these people don't have a clue. There are many more benefits for going static. I can't think of any reasons why dynamic would be better than static.

shubhangid · 01-15-2009, 03:26 AM

I would go with dynamic php with SEO friendly url.

seospinner · 01-15-2009, 03:53 AM

I think, dynamic pages are better than the static pages... I do not own a forum, I believe, all forums are dynamic in nature.