Many in the SEO world have long questioned the neccessity of re-writing dynamic URLs - those that pull content from databases - into static URLs that appear to end with a finite .php/.asp/.html/etc. A dynamic URL is often criticized by search optimizers because of the difficulties search engines have had indexing and reading them in the past.
Currently, however, Yahoo!, MSN, Google & Teoma all have dynamic pages in their index and in the top search results for many different searches. It would seem the issue with search engines has dissipated. However, the usability issue of dynamic URLs still exists. From a user perspective a URL in the form of - https://www.site.com/page.html is considerably friendlier than a URL written as https://www.site.com/page.php?ID=2&TAGformat=945bb399ls3.
No matter if it's posting the URL to a website, sending it in an email, or writing it on a notepad for later, the dynamic URL is something that is distinctly unfriendly for users. The advantages of mod_rewrite and other tools that allow for the conversion of dynamic URLs into static ones may be lessened by the new abilities of the search engines, but they are not altogether gone.
Hello Rand, This is my first comment here on SEOmoz and I am pretty excited about it. I am new to SEO and hence I have decided to go first with the Keyword Research category for getting an understanding in it.
Personally I never like dynamic URLs because they are too long and don't seem organized at all. Oh, and you just can't remember them. But a static URL is better since it is easy to remember and hence I think promoting it would be far easier than a dynamic one don't you think.
Static URL SEO friendly easy to understand user what is about the URL in Search engine !
At the end of the day - this is the point "No matter if it's posting the URL to a website, sending it in an email, or writing it on a notepad for later, the dynamic URL is something that is distinctly unfriendly for users."
True, there are some dynamic URL’s that have made top rankings in some of the search indexes. But, if you consider the preponderance of links crawled and those, which are indexed, a much smaller percentage or population of dynamic URL ever make the starting lineup.
The SEO business is all about, making the starting lineup or being within the top SERP? If your goal is to secure top ranking for your website and have as many pages as possible indexed, dynamic URL’s will get you to the goal much slower or possibly not at all.
SEO is a game, all about being liked and loved; liked by search engines and loved by human visitors. If you want to consistently show up as a top page and have deep penetration I would strongly encourage static URL’s or rewriting dynamic URL’s to static ones.
I recently submitted a new site via a site map to the Big Three. All the static URL’s were gobbled by MSN like a hobo would eat a ham sandwich. The dynamic ones are probably in a sandbox or worst. You can get to these pages from the site, but that’s not where I want you to initially encounter these pages. I want you to initially meet them in the search engines as you perform a search on relevant keywords.
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Recently Rand mentioned in one of his video, am talking about 2012 and he said, if you go back and look into my 2004-05 posts, you would say who is this IDIOT in the SEO... And now when I read his pots here, i feel so funny. I Wont call you idiot, but the posts just dont seems to be from the SEOMoz CEO Rand Fishkin... I ll again say the same, you ve come a long way Rand...