From PHP Magazine: Search Engine Optimization Specialists believe that spiders do not read beyond the, ".php," on a URL. Therefore, dynamic pages that pass a variable will be overlooked. A new article on webpronews.com provides a few tips to ensure all your dynamic PHP pages are indexed. The author elaborates on how to identify a PHP file that needs to be converted to a static URL, and modify the way the server opens the index.php file, when a variable is attached, so the spiders can read them.

In the new article from WebProNews.com, they discuss how just the simple extension on a file can cause a search engine to skip over the content of the page - as well as how to coerce the search engine into working with us, no against us. Using a simple RewriteRule in an .htaccess file, the search engine can be convinced that "directory-1.htm" is a static file (when it really contains the .php data from before).

It's an interesting method to a rather simple problem. It seems a little too much work, though - is this really that big of a problem? I had thought the "skipping over the .php files" was a thing of the past for most search engines...