Questions about page naming

[9999]

How do you name your pages like this?:

www.mysite.com/?pageid=1

www.mysite.com/?pageid=2

 

Instead of the normal way:

www.mysite.com/page1.php

www.mysite.com/page2.php

 

Also, what are  the advantages/disasdvantages of this and how does this effect the way search engines view the page?

[Northern Flame]

just make the index.php get the $_GET variables

example:

 

index.php

<?php

echo $_GET['page'];

?>

 

then go to http://www.yourwebsite.com/?page=home

 

 

 

i dont know how it affects the search engines,

but i've heard that some search engines do not

index pages with variables in the URL.

[mem0ri]

The page naming is actually:

 

http://www.mysite.com/index.php?page=2

 

It's called "dynamic" paging...and basically you're just sending at $_GET variable to the index page over and over again to tell it which .php (or .html or other) file to load for content.

[9999]

Thanks.  So, when I upload a page to be displayed as http://www.mysite.com/index.php?page=2 do I upload it as "2.php"

[Northern Flame]

its up to you.

 

you can do something like this:

 

<?php

switch($_GET['page']){
	case 1: // If index.php?page=1
		include('page01.php'); // you can change the value to the name of the page
	break;
	case 2: // If index.php?page=2
		include('page02.php'); // you can change the value to the name of the page
	break;
	// etc.....
}

?>

[9999]

Thank you very much!

[Northern Flame]

you're welcome

[9999]

Oh, one last question: What is the advantage of doing this versus the traditional method?

[Northern Flame]

to be honest i prefer the traditional method.

i've noticed i get better page ranking on google

and its better for SEO to have a keyword in

the url, such as

http://www.website.com/keyword.php

 

but other than that i dont see any differences

[9999]

Thank you.

[Northern Flame]

k, you're welcome