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PHP Build a Basic PHP Website (2018) Building a Media Library in PHP Working with _GET Variables

Posted by Jared Sanders
Jared Sanders
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Will changing the Title of the page dynamically affect search engine optimization?

I could be wrong, but I always remember my job telling me not to change the meta title and description because it will hurt the ranking with google, etc. Of course, when selling products, you want your page to show up towards the top of the page.

So by changing the $pageTitle based on what the $_GET["cat"] is, wouldn't that be affecting how search engines see the page? Or is this class on a more basic level where that isn't important? I guess it depends on whether or not google ranks each page (www.example.com?cat=example1, www.example.com?cat=example2, etc) as different pages or as one page.

Could someone help explain this process or make it clearer for me?