: Does Google treat .html pages differently from .php pages? Possible Duplicate: Should I use a file extension or not? My current hosting provider does not let me put PHP code inside

@Pierce454

First of all don't be concerned about search engines punishing your PHP pages. It should be perfectly fine. The only reason I could think of would be slow loading speed. But for that you would really need to have slow code (loop in a loop etc) and then I would rather be concerned about that slow code in general.

About 'the other' HTML/PHP question:
The HT in HTML means Hyper Text and the HP in PHP means Hypertext Preprocessor…:)

And about the 'trend' of not having extensions at all: you can of course leave the actual file name out if you're using "index.php" or "index.php"
So instead of "contact.php" you use "contact/index.php" and that becomes "contact/".

Hope this reply is of any use?
-cheers- till...

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@Fox8124981

There is a trend not to put any extensions on your web pages but have your pages with plain names like ww.co/index or ww.co/main_page. My understanding is that the name of your page does not really mean anything. The title, keywords, and content are more important. Since so many web sites now use web crawler friendly CMS, I don't see how you can be penalized for using intelligent technology for organizing your web site.

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@Courtney195

HTML views are generated by PHP, so you wouldn't be putting PHP code in HTML pages anyway. It's perfectly fine to be using PHP pages, as good SEO practices are server-side language agnostic anyway.

That said, you should be setting up clean URLs that don't have file extensions in the first place, and thus there should be no reason for any search engine (or visitor) to know which scripting language you're using.

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