Google does not favour php websites?

[ProsperoDigital]

Hi there. An SEO company recently told me that google does not favour php development? This seems rather sketchy, I have not read that google doesn't favour this anywhere, did I just miss that part of SEO or are these guys blowing a little smoke?

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi Raymond,

I seriously hope that they meant this in a different context than just saying PHP for SEO is bad. Because it's absolutely not true, at least 20% of the web is almost using WordPress which is nothing more than PHP. Besides that millions of sites are using PHP as well so I won't bother about this advice and if they literally said this then look for another SEO company as they're probably not worth the risk.

[BlueprintMarketing]

Hi Raymond,

If you need confirmation about what Martijn stated it is 100% true.

I think that statement is wrong in every sense of a word Google is not against the act of using PHP is a server-side code because it is all HTML in the end Google because Google BOT cannot read PHP!

WordPress as was said is PHP based however it is excellent for search engine optimization because it creates HTML the only language that Google even understands aside from schema which I am not into.

If they meant Google is not as good to sites made on the WordPress CMS switch agencies.

Basically, PHP is a server-side code and HTML is what Google sees.

So a WordPress based website is in fact capable of producing HTML 5 and CSS 3 just as well as any other pure HTML site in fact I prefer it.

Sincerely,

Thomas

[ProsperoDigital]

Hi Martijn,

Thanks for the real quick response, I thought they were fishing there, I have been reading about SEO practices for the past 2 years and haven't heard of this issue at all, but wanted to be 100% before jumping to conclusions. Thanks very much for the response I appreciate it.