Search engines never see these urls. They are not anywhere on the site and only exist on print advertising campaigns. And I do throw in a status code of 301 using cfheader for good measure... but I'm not particularly worried about search engines for what this doing.
Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kay Smoljak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 6:44 AM Subject: Re: Are "search engine safe" URLs really necessary? > On 4/25/05, Jeff Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I use a custom 404 handler that does a database lookup from a table of >> vanity URLs. It evaluates the last value of a list separated by "/" and >> searches the database for the url... > > You realise that when a search engine hits a 404 it turns around > faster than you can say "result page 1 billion"? > > -- > Kay Smoljak > http://kay.smoljak.com/ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:204275 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
