John Cox has a new posting on his weblog today - one that talks about the fact that PHP, contrary to popular belief, can make friends with search engines quite easily.

A recent article from Minisite Mentor gives 10 Search Engine Optimization Tips. Most of the tips were good, however there was one that made my head spin: "Do not use dynamic pages." I am so tired of seeing this common misconception spread. Dynamic sites are crawled just fine with the search engines.

The only possible issue that he mentions is the possibility of an "id" in your url throwing off the crawler (mostly on Google's behalf, since it represents those pages with session IDs). Enable transsid, and you're home free on that.

Seems like this was a big push a while back - making your site the easiest for search engines, even the smaller ones, to crawl over and gather into their vast databanks. Now, as he mentions, there's really not as much of a problem there - engines have evolved past their need to rely on what the page structure is...