Dear forum members,


i would like to know how to change dynamic PHP & ASP documents into static pages.

is mode rewrite necessary,please help me

Thank you

mod rewrite would be the way to go, But the URLs are going to change which will mean a loss in SERPS and your site will have to wait to be reindexed.

Personally i wouldn't bother. Dynamic pages aren't ranked or crawled any different than static pages.

ASP

mod_rewrite is an Apache only system, so if you are running IIS you will need a different solution.

This would be very easy with ASP.NET, although Adam tells us custom 404 is the way to go with old-school ASP.

More to the point, Stox is absolutely right about static vs dynamic content. That's an old wive's tale from about five years ago. Engines used to have a harder time dealing with dynamically generated pages, and in some cases index them differently. They still do, with the suppdex, if you use too many query string parameters.

ASP and PHP run some code on the server, and sends pure HTML down to the client, with maybe some script the bots will ignore. And content is content.

Mostly. If you serve radically different things from the same URL with a different query, the bots could have a hard time with it, but chances are you're just fine. Microsoft's development site ( msdn ) does fine in the SERPs, and is all ASP and ASP.NET.

All our sites are dynamic and, as regards SEO, we poop all over our static page competition from a dizzy, nosebleed height. Don't waste your time...

Well, if you have personal reasons for wanting static pages and want to rid yourself of dynamic pages, and you are running on apache. . .

I think you can use Add-type or even Force-type in your .htaccess file to make your .php pages read as html. You'll have to strip out the code, though.

This way you won't have to mess with redirects, the index.php page will still be there, only the file will be read as static, not dynamic.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, I use this in an inverted way - I save pages as .htm but they are actually perl scripts. (using add-type cgi-script to the htaccess file)

However, it really has no effect on search engine rankings, at least that I've noticed in the last couple of years.