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How does PHP compare to HTML
webandwe writes:
"Hi
I saw this one site that is fully php but ranks quite well.
How do PHP compare within search engines?
I believe in some cases it will work good cause php make html text, and because you coding have to be 100% to work you have a site that has no flaws thus ranking.
Please let me know how do you find PHP, the reason behind this is causing I am opening a site that has to be fully php and I cannot have a html page for a home page.
Thanks"

To be honest, it doesn't matter, it makes no difference in the effectiveness of search engine ranking, even if your site is in cold fusion (*.cfm) or Active Sever Pages (*.asp), etc

the only problem that may arise is when using languages like php, cfm, asp etc, the URL's can have extra attributes to them, like for instance:
index.php?action=some-variable&download=79734ho7089434&userID=some-username

Google recently made some adjustments to URL's of this nature to allow better assignment of page rank to be applied to these pages and how it ranks in the search engines, but too many will hurt. Keep 'em short. or if in doubt and need to keep them short, use the re-write functions in your .htaccess file that's kept in your root directory.