.HTML better than .ASPX

Age old question I guess...

From a technical standpoint, there should be no reason a crawler would differentiate.

From an SEO standpoint, I've heard repeatedly that html files are always better than any dynamic pages (.aspx, .php, .cfm, etc.)

So...what's your opinion and/or experiences?


-Tyson

If you can keep the params to a minimum (2 or under) than you wont have any problems. Any more and you need to apply IIS (I believe, as I only work with Unix) to rewrite the URLs so they are search engine friendly.

It doesn't matter what scripting language you create the site it just depends on the amount of params you force a spider to handle.

Also NO SESSION IDs!

In reference to file extensions (.aspx, .php, .cfm) these dont qualify a URL as dynamic, the extension you use does not effect your SE result at all

I know some people that have been in the SEO industry for a while, and they are sure that html pages get indexed quicker and better than aspx.

Once again, this doens't make any sense to me as a developer, but I trust their experience as well.

Has no one experienced this at all?

I think that is the current problem with the site that I am currently working on (http://www.ringingphone.com). Google has stopped spidering it and was told because it uses cookies that go to session ids or vice versa. I've also heard that .html get indexed quicker and are picked up better than .asp files.

We're currently working on a brand new site. Does anyone know how 'on the fly' xml pages fit into this equation at all? Or stick to the static pages.

Thanks!

the extensions themselves don't matter, as SEO Guy pointed out.

there are, however, certain things you should avoid. among them: session hashes/session ids and "?" parameters.

session hashes will almost never make it in. the "?" parameter pages completely depend on the PR.

Are you quite sure????

I believe it's if they are constant and they dont change than they'll be indexed. Ex: Google comes by for 2 months and keeps finding the link than it knows the page is there for good. Lowers the flag and indexes the page.

Also having backlinks to the pages lets Google know that others think the page should be indexed.

PR has nothing to do with it in my opinion.