On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 16:49 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 11:52:00AM +0100, Russell Seymour wrote: > > > Morning, > > > > I am trying to make my URLs more search engine friendly and I have come > > up against a problem. > > > > I want the following URL: > > > > mysite.example.com/articles/Test Story > > > > to be proxied to > > > > mysite.example.com/index.php?m=articles&t=Test%20Story > > > > Aside from the solution to your problem (which I don't have), you might > want to double-check on the "search engine friendliness" of URLs which > contain query strings. I know at one time this was the case, but the > latest I've heard is that URLs like your second one above are completely > okay with search engines. If someone else knows different, please speak > up. > > And oh by the way, don't *ever* store a filename with a space in it on > your computer. It's Evil(tm). I curse the idiot who first came up with > allowing this in filenames. I have a special voodoo doll just for that > person, when I find them. As you can see, it causes all manner of odd > problems, no matter what OS it's on. (My local LUG list is periodically > hit with messages from people trying to overcome the problems attendant > to this habit.) > > Paul > > -- > Paul M. Foster >
I do a lot of research into SEO, and the only evidence I've found that comes close to this is where a website set up a page containing a fictional keyword in the URL, then searched for that word a week or two later. I don't know how valid the 'SEO friendly URLs' are though. How often have you searched for the answer to a question online and had the top few results turn out to be forums with dynamic query-string URLs?! Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
