How to Develop an SEO Friendly PHP Website?

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Currently, SEO web design is the most promoted product for the online businesses to achieve their sales targets. Yes, fetching a good traffic from Google or other search leading engines is being possible with SEO campaigns. On-page optimization, off-page optimization, and technical factors are the three prime elements of brining SEO success for a website. So, the need of SEO friendly programming language can be fulfilled with PHP. For a better search engine visibility of the web pages, the web developers should follow the following tips while developing a SE friendly website.

Tips for developing an SEO friendly PHP website:

• Clean URL structure:

Dynamic URLs and season IDs in URL are not good so the developer need to use unique PHPSESSID variable. If the season IDs will be included in URLs so, the search engines will treat a single page with different season IDs as different pages. It leads to duplicate content which is punishable by search engines.

Use keyword rich permalinks with url_rewriter tags, which makes the URLs friendly for both search engines and visitors. Also decrease the use of special characters other than the hyphen (-) symbol.

• Avoid canonical errors:

Search engines treat www and non-www sites differently if also they are containing same content. Duplicate content issue may arise, so use 301 redirection. In this concern the PHP developers need to spend more time on homepage as the site.com/index.php will be treated as different to site.com.

• Putting right heading and bold tags:

Optimizing the website for search engines in development period carries a lot of responsibilities and adds more tasks for the web developers. Creating a dynamic header (header.php) and using unique values for Meta of singular web...

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...Facebook, Wikipedia, YouTube, etc like some high traffic sites are using MySQL so there is no doubt on performance of PHP’s preferred database management system i.e. MySQL (by Oracle).

• The ext4 file system of Linux OS (supports PHP) has better performance record than MS Windows OS’s NTFS (used for ASP) during Input/output (IO) process.

• The Linux web servers with LAMP platform use comparatively fewer server resources i.e. CPU and Memory.

• The PHP developers got the flexibility choose their own editor but this feature is not associated with ASP. Using VI and VIM editors, the PHP developers get access to use and integrate other important platforms like Ajax, JavaScript, JQuery, etc due to developing in an open source platform.

• PHP is supported in any OS platforms like Linux, Mac (Mac OS X), UNIX and Windows also. But ASP is limited to only with MS Windows OS.

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