what is static and dynamic sites

[mayankxx]

hello friends ,
I want to know what is static and dynamic sites and whts the diffrent in both sites . and which sites is better for seo ?

anybody know so plz pm .
Thankx

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[dgopolla]

dynamic site is the web pages are dynamically built pages that allow user interaction.
static site is like an online brochure giving information about your organisation, your products, services and contacts. It normally does not contain interactive functionality, and updates to content and images are done by a web developer with HTML skills.

[ScriptMan]

What dgopolla said is accurate but it may not answer your question in your mind.

A static site is one where the pages exist on the server and are delivered to the browser.

A dynamic site is one that is created as the page is requested and usually uses a database to make them.

Both can rank well with SE, but often the dynamic ones do not because of poorly written/developed scripts.

A static site is much easier to keep a back-up of because all you need is a copy of the pages stored on your local computer.

[jingwen]

Search engine likes the static sites.It is easy to crawl by search engine.

[bermuda]

The static web pages have always been preferred when it comes to the matter of SEO since as mentioned they can always be accessed by people and the search engines bots and getting indexed and rankings for them too can be easier.

[chimps]

hi to all!

i'm new here
can anyone list some common extension filenames for static and dynamic sites...

[zeruel]

Originally Posted by chimps

hi to all!

i'm new here
can anyone list some common extension filenames for static and dynamic sites...

Hi chimps!

Welcome to v7n! Feel free to introduce yourself on the new member introduction section located HERE.

[ScriptMan]

Welcome to the forums.

can anyone list some common extension filenames for static and dynamic sites...

A server can be set to parse any extension so these are simply the "normal "defaults:
static= html, htm, txt,doc and whatever a Mac might use.
dynamic = php, asp, and a few others

If you look at the url in the address bar you will see that this page name ends in html. I assure you this is not an html page. A feature called mod-rewrtite is being used to rewrite the urls. VB forum software runs on php.

Just want you to understand that what you think you see is not necessarily what really is.

[busweb]

Static pages are preferred but with fresh content . Could they be static pages with dynamic content?

[chimps]

Hi Scriptman,

mod-rewrite? what do you mean by mod-rewrite?

[seoguys]

search engine preffered static url rather than dynamic url .

[ScriptMan]

what do you mean by mod-rewrite?

Trust me on this. I am the last person you want explaining this in any detail but I think I can give you a basic understanding. This is an example and does not reflect the real names of the scripts involved. Look at the address bar at the top of this page. You see:
/118208-what-static-dynamic-sites.html
as the last part of that address.

The real URL is something like showpost.php?forum=seo-forum&id=118208

When mod-rewrite is enabled in the .htaccess file parts of a URL can be rewriten to become something else that is more SEO friendly. In the case of this forum the scripts have also been modified to pull part of the post title and make it part of the URL so there is more than just mod-rewite going on.

Pure mod-rewrite would yield something like /seo-forum/118208.html

[chimps]

Originally Posted by ScriptMan

Trust me on this. I am the last person you want explaining this in any detail but I think I can give you a basic understanding. This is an example and does not reflect the real names of the scripts involved. Look at the address bar at the top of this page. You see:
/118208-what-static-dynamic-sites.html
as the last part of that address.

The real URL is something like showpost.php?forum=seo-forum&id=118208

When mod-rewrite is enabled in the .htaccess file parts of a URL can be rewriten to become something else that is more SEO friendly. In the case of this forum the scripts have also been modified to pull part of the post title and make it part of the URL so there is more than just mod-rewite going on.

Pure mod-rewrite would yield something like /seo-forum/118208.html

so mod-rewrite change the url to become more SEO friendly... is that the only purpose of this mod-rewrite?

[ScriptMan]

Mostly. There is a small bit of security involved if you are working with a cutom script as it conceals the true file names and hel avoid exploits.

If you are using a well know software the hachers already know the filenames.

[govindseo]

Search Engine give more boost for static site!!!

[Methu09]

Here is very briefly and informative article on static and dynamic site

visualbuilder.com/aspnet/tutorial/pageorder/2/

Hope you can solve your confutation from this article

Static is the best for SEO, those sites getting ranking speedily on search engine rather then dynamic sites...

[chimps]

Originally Posted by ScriptMan

Mostly. There is a small bit of security involved if you are working with a cutom script as it conceals the true file names and hel avoid exploits.

If you are using a well know software the hachers already know the filenames.

Can you expand more so i can fully understand the security purpose...

[blitzcrieg]

Originally Posted by mayankxx

hello friends ,
I want to know what is static and dynamic sites and whts the diffrent in both sites . and which sites is better for seo ?

anybody know so plz pm .
Thankx

Static pages are already established and are not drawn up from bits and pieces from a search query. Until recently search engines could not surf dynamic pages and thus items on such sites were not listed in search engines but today some search engines, like Google and Yahoo, are able to do so. However it takes longer for them to index all the data and if you have set up similar static pages it can cause supplemental results penalties unless one or the other has a noindex meta tag on it.

On the other hand, in order to generate dynamic pages it requires a script program such as ASP, PHP or CMF to generate instructions to call up and construct the dynamic pages after the surfer inputs some data in a search program. Dynamic pages often use characters in their URL which prevent the search engines from reading and indexing the data on that page, i.e., "&id=". They also often utilize Session IDs in the URLs which, if not properly written, will prevent search engines from following links on that page (or cause an inflated page count) and those pages don't gain PR (Page Rank) from Google either. If you are familiar with using HTACCESS you can set up redirects for dynamic URLs by using a tool to rewrite URLs.

[Himalayan]

Static sites are search engine friendly and helpful from SEO point of view in comparison of dynamic sites because dynamic sites are build and handled by coding.

[neoscud]

A static or standard website uses a programming code such as HTML or xHTML. Like a traditional advert or magazine article, once it has been printed it can no longer be changed. A dynamic website on the other hand uses programming in addition to the layout to not only allow the flow of data in and out of the site but to make meaningful relationships with the data. For example an online bed and breakfast directory may allow businesses to sign up and manage their own profiles. Visitors to the site may then search the directory based on their needs for example, search for businesses that offer a particular service in south-east England....you can also determine this by the site extension like .html is static while .php is dynamic..

search engines trust static site coz they can rely that the content will remain the same after they index it so for them its more reliable.