A lot of websites today, especially those with shopping carts, are made up of Dynamic web pages. A dynamic webpage is one that is driven by a database. Most of the information on a dynamic web page does not appear until a person accesses that page. The database then brings up what the person is looking for.

This is a good thing for online shopping but not so good if you are looking for good search engine results. Search engines usually cannot access the information or data on a dynamic page to index it because it changes all of the time.

Add some Static web pages to your website.

A static web page is one where the information is permanent and does not come from a database. Therefore, the search engine can index it and it will show up on search engine results.

How to tell the difference between a dynamic and static webpage?

Look at the end of the webpage address.

A dynamic page will usually end in .php, .asp, .aspx or have a Session ID at the end of the address.

Example: http://www.limaugeboutique.com/categories.php

A static page will usually end in either .htm or .html

Example: http://www.limaugeboutique.com/lavender.htm


Print this Article

3 comments

  1. sas certification // June 10, 2009 at 1:11 AM  

    Good information about difference between static and dynamic web pages.Many of sites banned google crawler to access their password protected areas.We can use robot.txt file protecting our password protected data from google crawler.

  2. 642-691 // July 18, 2009 at 8:00 AM  

    Thanks for this great information which you've provided on this site. This i was searching on the internet and came across on this page which is really helpful for me.

  3. Firany // July 30, 2009 at 2:42 AM  

    It is truth, dynamic web page construction gives some great advantages over standard way of web page building. With use of big database many new opportunities and interesting options can appear. And I agree that it is great way of managing online shop or other service that provides some products differently for different users. And this post is quite informative for me. I think that it could be helpful and it will help me for sure.