static vs dynamic

Hello Everybody,
I'm new at this forum and I'm sure that I'll be around alot in the future with tons of questions. Anyway, I recently started building my first ecommerce site in html. I decided not to go dynamic because I want to take advantage of SEO as much as possible. Each product will have it's own optimized page and I will use PAlpal's shopping cart. From what I've read here on this forum, several of you are building your ecommerce sites static, so I guess I my method isn't too far off(right?). But where do you consider going dynamic? I am considering about 30 - 50 products on my site and with regualar updates. Does having an ecommerce site with 50 products each on its own HTML pages make sense? Should I be considering a database at this point? I've been told that some ecommerce sites consist of thousands of html pages. To me, from a SEO point of view it does make sense to have so many html pages, but I'd like to know what other think and where they would consider going dynamic.

Adios,
adzap

Welcome to the forum.

IMO it's no point in making a static website regarding SEO. The only thing with static websites is that you can put a keyword in the filename (and some belive easier spidering). Well, you can do the same thing with rewritten url's using .htaccess, isapirewrite or custom 404. The url will look like a static one, and according to my experience the spiders will be happy.

If you wan't extra work, go static, if you wan't a functional website, go dynamic.

If your website is not already indexed, I would suggest doing it....it cant hurt but it will always help in search engine rankings if your webiste is easily spiderable....keep in mind the small search engines....and just don't think g**gle all the time

Do some searching on search engines, and you'll see plenty of dynamic websites come up in results.
Don't do it, just for the sake of SEO. From a visitors standpoint, your site needs to be fast and functional.