Website Creation (Does it bother SEO?)

[Porte]

Hello guys,

I really needed to share this with you, as I have to take a fast decision on future changes on website. Does It Bother SEO?

A website consists of one index page, lets say it's index.php and it contains 3 includes

First...the database connection
Second...the functions file (which is reponsible for all php/mysql operations)
Third...a little statement that calls the html file depending on the current $_GET value.

Well, without going into details, does this idea bother my SEO listing, ranking or anything?

Because the whole website would be viewed in that index.php page.
And It does happen that a search engine robot visits your site and doesn't list you. Why? Just curious...

And would my website this way takes more bandwidth than the regular way? pros and cons?

 

[dgaussin]

If you click on the Gmail invite in my sig you could see I did that. I ony use an index.php to get web pages.

There's no difference for bandwith, whatever the url, only the page sizes count.

But for SEO I think it's a bad option because you can't have several pages referenced in Google for example, only one since it's the only one page on the website for Google. I think I'm going to use mod_rewrite to have some friendly url to map on index.php. Be careful so with your url, it's very important for Google.

 

[StudioWorks]

Can you your web site's URL ?

 

[dgaussin]

Umm... what ?

 

[Porte]

dgaussin,

Thanks so much, very helpful. So It's only bad for google listing as it'll only index the main page. How can I avoid this anyway (without changing the structure) ?

 

[dgaussin]

Using mod_rewrite like Adam said there : http://www.namepros.com/showpost.php?p=619480&postcount=13

 

[Porte]

Added to favorites, very helpful! Thank you.