Hello Everyone,

I'm new here and just getting back into SEO (a little bit) after not doing anything 'myself' for a couple of years.  My question is along the same subject.  Currently my individual URLs show as: https://www.example.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=107 (dynamic responsive site).

I can switch it to a static site, so the individual product pages read as:https://www.example.com/catalog/category name/product name-107.html

It's still a long URL, but it would be keyword rich.  Some of my current dynamic pages are indexed,and due to an upgrade I had to do several months back, I already have some redirects (301) from my php extensions to the one listed above.  This is my long explanation to my following questions:

1. Does having a dynamic or static site matter when ranking in search engines

2. I already have some redirects coming my older site to this dynamic site, so I would have to make more directs from the dynamic site to my static site - is this okay to do?

I'm really at a loss, a couple of years ago, I ranked 1-3 (on Page 1) on Google for all my keywords, (all White Hat work), and now I'm into great abyss of no mans land of the internet (ranked on Page 3+)

Thank you for any and all help from everyone!

~Sandra