On 12/20/06, Jacob Munson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > #1. If I do this, products will be available to be viewed by clicking either > > style of URL. Would Google, Yahoo or MSN penalize my site for this because > > it would be considered *duplicate* content? > > I don't think so, but I could be wrong. In BlogCFC, every entry in > your blog is accessible with two URLs, one SEO and one not. I'd > assume that Ray knew what he was doing when he did that, and wouldn't > have penalized people's blogs.
No you can definitely get penalized for having the same content at two different URL's, this is precisely duplicate content! You want to avoid the penalty by doing a 301 redirect to the new url. The 301 redirect will also pass forward any score (pagerank, etc) that the old url had on to the new url. > > > #2. In your opinion, just how much benefit is there to using SEO URLs? > > In my experience, SES URLs are very important if you care about page > rank... Having keywords in the url doesn't do anything to improve your pagerank, but it can improve your rankings (the order of the results of the search engine are determined with much more than just the pagerank). In general you want your pages to look as "natural" as possible, so the best types of url's are things like: http://www.mysite.com/adidas-odyssey-field-bag.cfm Here are some tips on keywords in the url: The keywords should be as close to the domain name as possible. Don't use too many keywords. Don't repeat keywords Strip out common words like the, is, and, etc. to keep url short. Keep url looking as short and natural as possible, while still having a few keywords in there. Keywords in the url can help, but it is more important to have good page titles, and good content. -- Pete Freitag http://foundeo.com/ - ColdFusion Consulting & Products http://petefreitag.com/ - My Blog http://spendfish.com/ - Fish for Deals ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:264643 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
