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Jsp vs php - impact on search

Miles Swayne

1:54 pm on Oct 13, 2006 (gmt 0)

Hi all,

Would love it if anyone can answer this. We are building a site for a client - a very brand and visual led site. Does anyone know that impact that we would have on search results if the site was hosted using a jsp server using a stuts framework as opposed to a asking if it can be served on a conventional php.

I have a feeling it calm harm our search profile if jsp but im not able to say why!

Many thanks!

[edited by: caveman at 4:09 pm (utc) on Oct. 13, 2006]
[edit reason] No specifics please, per TOS. [/edit]

kristian nissen

9:38 am on Oct 19, 2006 (gmt 0)

what language you choose to program in has no effect on your ability to rank. It's all about site structure and relevance. Using jsp/servlets gives you the ability to build navigation like "domain.com/foldername/filename/" using servlet mapping, this can also be done using rewrite and .htaccess.

Focus on structure.

coopster

8:22 pm on Oct 19, 2006 (gmt 0)

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, Miles Swayne.
Welcome to WebmasterWorld, kristian nissen.

You can do the same navigational mapping in PHP, Perl, etc. and all without Apache mod_rewrite and .htaccess. Still, what you decide to use on the back end should be what fits your application, budget, support structure, etc. Search engine site ranking comes from your content, page development, etc. -- not from the server-side technology being used.

HereComesEverybody

2:21 am on Oct 25, 2006 (gmt 0)

Not only that, you can set up your pages to have html endings in either case. The search engine need not even know what language you are using.

Thez

1:54 pm on Nov 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

I have 10 sites written with jsp running on Orion application server and all are indexed fine. I've rewritten majority of content pages' URLs to .html format which is done using simple servlet-mapping in website xml files and a redirect servlet.

In my opinion, go for JSP.

haentz

12:42 pm on Nov 21, 2006 (gmt 0)

You got to be careful to have real unique URLs for your pages, if you use struts. Depending on how you use struts it can work through Proxy-Servlets, which use parameters to display different content pages.

I personaly would always use JSP instead of PHP.

Kind regards, hans