{"id":1521,"date":"2011-06-01T16:49:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T22:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webii.net\/blog\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2022-02-07T15:37:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T21:37:39","slug":"is-php-bad-for-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webii.net\/blog\/is-php-bad-for-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"Is PHP Bad for SEO?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remain calm, everyone. PHP is not your enemy. Some people might tell you that certain dynamic website technologies make your website &#8220;bad for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webii.net\/seo-services\/\">SEO<\/a>&#8220;. 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But there are simple ways to improve the URLs of your website, by using either a built-in custom URL option inside of your software (like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webii.net\/website-services\/web-development\/wordpress\/\">WordPress<\/a> or Joomla) or by adding an SEO-friendly URL module to your software (such as with Drupal and Path Auto), or by using mod_rewrite features of the web server and modifying .htaccess files.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes this URL issue alone is what causes people to panic and say &#8220;PHP is not SEO-friendly&#8221;. This is simply untrue. In fact, many other languages like ASP any other database applications can have numerical or formula-looking URL structures, and they too can be modified with some work. 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