PHP or ASP

I know that there is probably no definitive answer, but
does it matter in search engine optimization whether you use PHP or ASP for your CMS.

Look forward to hearing your ideas.

I can't imagine a reason one scripting/programming language could be favored over the other by the search engines. So my answer is no, it doesn't matter.

No. It makes no difference at all. What gets spidered is the page you serve up, not the script used to create it.

Google Facts & Fiction (http://www.google.com/webmasters/facts.html)

Fiction: Sites are not included in Google's index if they use ASP (or some other non-html file-type.)
Fact: We're able to index most types of pages and files with very few exceptions. A sampling of the file extensions we're able to index includes: pdf, asp, jsp, html, shtml, xml, doc, xls, ppt, rtf, wks, lwp, wri, swf, cfm, and php.

A sampling of the file extensions we're able to index includes: pdf, asp, jsp, html, shtml, xml, doc, xls, ppt, rtf, wks, lwp, wri, swf, cfm, and phpThat one caught my eye. For some time I've heard/read that pages with full flash interfaces make spidering damn near impossible. I've even used that argument (among others) with some clients to disclaim the use of flash on their pages.

I'm not a flash guy at all but that's always been my understanding as well. Flash designers generally use other techniques to add text content to pages for spiders for that reason.

Google is also able to follow certain kinds of javascript links now, as well. However, remember that you're building pages for other search engines too - even if Google is the big one at present, you don't want to be blocking Yahoo and MSN from any of your pages.

No there is no difference between php and asp when it comes to search engines.

Not at all in SEO terms

That one caught my eye. For some time I've heard/read that pages with full flash interfaces make spidering damn near impossible. I've even used that argument (among others) with some clients to disclaim the use of flash on their pages.

I beleive it can crawl and index the page, but i do not beleive that is able to actually read any content inside the flash movies.

I could however be wrong on that, but thats what my understanding of it is.

I beleive it can crawl and index the page, but i do not beleive that is able to actually read any content inside the flash movies.
That's correct. Which means that on some Flash pages there is littlle or no content that CAN be spidered.

You can use a <noscript> or <noflash> tag to describe the page content (don't quote me on those tags since I don't use Flash) or I believe another technique is to write the page content/description in a layer beneath the Flash, so that non-Flash enabled visitors like spiders have something to see and feed on.