PR and PHP

[Linda]

Does anyone out there know why the internal pages of many PHP sites have a PR0 while the index page can have a high PR? Is something stopping the PR from flowing to the internal pages?
-Linda

[xml]

Dynamic URL's seems to find it hard to pass PR. If the URLs are static there should be no problem.

[owlcroft]

That is why God created the .htaccess file and the 301 Redirect.

[mkahn]

someone posted on this topic before, that a single query param was OK, but more wasn't.. So, I'm wondering if http://www.blahbla.com?this=that&that=theother could just be rewritten as a single query param, and parsed by the program, ge. ?queries=thisEQthatANDthatEQtheother;

These are preset queries, though, so I've been writing a little perl script to just do the queries and write the results as .html pages. The problem is I'll lose the nice little click - sort functionality; I'm also not experienced enough to know what the query frequency is that will slow down the server. I'm figuring we don't have a high enough traffic site for it to matter, yet, and when we do, it'll just be a matter of bumping up the hosting platform. We get ~ 8k visits a month, and a reasonably small db.

[seo guy]

why would you use a pearl script when Mod Rewrite (http://mod-rewrite.com) exists?

[FreeAgent]

I mask my .php pages with .html or .htm.

Here are two easy step by step guides that can show you how to use the masking technique.

http://www.stargeek.com/php-seo.php
http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/dynamicstatic.shtml

[owlcroft]

No one really *knows* how much or how little multiple levels on dynamic URLs do or don't slow down searchbots. But as SEO Guy says, with mod_rewrite available, why have _any_??

I have probably said this 537,329 times before, but I guess it bears another repeating: whyever take ANY *needless* risk--however small?

[mkahn]

Thanks, I'm checking it out. Its a lot of work; my perl solution will work much quicker (development time, that is) so. You will note its doing something different: I'm not rewriting on the fly, I'm just pregenerating the dynamic pages; no server directives required. Loading time is an issue as well, and putting the server through those hoops will eat the clock, I'd bet.