OK, I can get on board with that. I thought he meant from a programmatical standpoint it was bad.
This actually is a hot-button issue right now here at our firm. So, if you don't mind, can I ask why you didn't use SES URL's? Are they not as effective as this-is-the-product-name.cfm method? Thanks for letting me lean on you a little - I have about 10 projects going on right now that this directly correlates with. Ray Paul Giesenhagen wrote: > I agree with Neil, > > In the past year we had one of our customers of SiteDirector request > absolute page names ie "/this-is-the-productname.cfm" so we wrote scripts to > do just that. > > Now 1 year later, when searching in google for his types of products we see > him always in the top 5 of the page and many times number one. > > It definately convinced us and with our newest version, that is our route to > take absolute page names and minimal query strings. > > It's all about the SEO .. that is why so many large corporations have full > time staff working on them. > > Paul Giesenhagen > QuillDesign > 417-885-1375 > http://www.quilldesign.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 10:30 AM > Subject: RE: What CMS for .cfm?pageid= > > >> Mainly SEO - a big thing these days. Yeah I know Google etc can all spider >> this content - it just looks bad etc. In this case say pageid=3455 = an >> About Us section of a website where /aboutus would do. >> >> What is better >> >> www.awebsite.com/aboutus >> >> or >> >> www.awebsite.com/index.cfm?pageid=3455 >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Crow T. Robot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 12 May 2006 16:03 >> To: CF-Talk >> Subject: Re: What CMS for .cfm?pageid= >> >> Curious, what makes it so poor? >> >> Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote: >>> Well this isn't really an indicator of any CMS etc, just a (poor) way to >> get >>> content for a particular page. >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Doug Bedient [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Sent: 05 May 2006 18:56 >>> To: CF-Talk >>> Subject: What CMS for .cfm?pageid= >>> >>> I'm starting to see this in a lot of places. Is there a particular CMS >> that >>> uses that page coding style? There seems to be too many sites for it to >>> be >> a >>> coincidence. >>> >>> Thanks for any leads, >>> Doug >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:240351 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
