Another benefit of abstract URLs is that they hide the inner workings of your site, allowing you to change the way the site works without screwing up any external links, bookmarks, or what people have remembered. For example, a url like "/go/sitemap" points to a sitemap (obviously), and but might translate to sitemap.cfm, or index.cfm?fuseaction=main.sitemap or index.cfm?event=sitemap. Who knows, and who cares. That's a really nice feature to have if you're ever going to make changes to your app. With such a layer in place, you can roll from standalone pages to Fusebox without affecting anyone. Heck, you can even switch from CFML to .NET if you want, and no one would need care.
In my opinion, that's worth setting them up, regardless if you care about search engines (like on an intranet, for example). The flexibility down the road is VERY worthwhile. cheers, barneyb On 1/24/06, Raymond Camden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One reason is to help people find resources. For example, if you know > the name of a UDF, you can go right to it at cflib using this format: > > www.cflib.org/udf.cfm/UDFNAME > > On 1/24/06, Damien McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In today's day and age of intelligent search engines, is there any > > reason to bother with SES anymore? Bar installing an ISAPI filter, I > > can already do http://mysite.com/?go=page which is pretty short as is. > > > > -- > > Damien McKenna -- Barney Boisvert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 360.319.6145 http://www.barneyb.com/ Got Gmail? I have 100 invites. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230396 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=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
