Which programming language is most friendly to search engines?

Question

php, .net, java script, etc.... and why?

Answer 1

The question makes no sense. When a search engine visits your site, it can only read the output produced by your scripts. So it is not the programming language that needs to be search engine-friendly, it's the output.

JavaScript is somewhat of a special case, since it is executed on the client. Search engines usually do not bother executing JavaScript, so you sould minimize the use of JavaScript if you want to be search engine-friendly...

Answer 2

There isn't any one particular language that is more friendly than another, it really depends upon the way you choose to use the one you select.

The thing to consider is this...Search engines spider web sites and they index the *static results* of the pages they vist...So, if you are using a server-side script to generate a page, the search engine will index the resulting HTML, *not* the script that generated it.

Depending upon what you're using the script to do, this can cause interesting indexing results, especially if you're depending upon user inputs to generate page content.

Again though, the choice of scripting language is up to the programmer and their comfort level. I personally recommend PHP, simply because it's open-source, very wide spread, and easy to use.

Answer 3

PHP and .net are no different to HTML from a search engines point of view, so they're both ideal.

Search engines do have problems with Javascript though: they can't read it. As such you should use it sparingly and never for anything which is essential for the search engines to find (eg, links).

More details in my free guide : http://www.adambunn.co.uk/seo-beginners.php

Answer 4

better you use .net due to this program is the latest release from Microsoft, and I think in the next year will be used in big community