[BloodNinja3]

I know that there is probably no definitive answer, but
does it matter in search engine optimization whether you use PHP or ASP for your CMS.

Look forward to hearing your ideas.

[T2DMan]

There is a definative answer - it makes no difference what the language is. The extensions on the files could be rewritten so that the files have no .php or asp at the end. Who is to know what the language is.

More to the point, it is how the programming is used that determines what Google thinks of it.

• Whether there is a unique title, meta description, h1, opening paragraph.
• Whether there is only one url per page.
• How simple the url's are

All rather basic actually.

[mandar-seo]

Whether there is only one url per page.

How to create two URLs for the same page?

With regards,
Mandar Thosar

[T2DMan]

What is your question????

CMS systems often create more than one url for a page. Check out any other vBulletin page, and the next thread/previous thread, or newpost/lastpost. Each are the same page as the "thread" page, yet have url's with newpost/lastpost, next thread/prev thread in the url.

Often the url's for page two will have page=2 in the url, then refer to page one with page=1 in the url. Yet page one is also refered to with no "page=1" in the url. Yet another url for the same page.

There are so many examples of this bad programming around the web. Photopost is riddled with it. The standard default vBulletin at least has added rel=nofollow to many of such links

[Gracia]

It doesn't matter, the server shows html to the spiders regardless of the extension.

Although my personal preference is php/msql because it is more widely used and a wealth of information is readily available for it.