You haven't really asked a question but... .... if it's a choice between /83/ or /gardentools/ and your page isn't about the number 83, go with the later.
Adrian -----Original Message----- From: Bryan Stevenson Sent: 18 April 2008 23:44 To: CF-Talk Subject: URL re-write SEO friendly Hey All....passing this along for a co-worker..... Hello All -- I am working on a database driven website that can access individual records with a URL like this: http://www.domainname.com/index.cfm?pg=listing_details&id=83&hit=1&popup=0&p review=1 In order to make the URL more SEO friendly, we are using a URL handler that lets us structure the URL this way: http://www.domainname.com/index.cfm/pg/listing_details/id/83/hit/1/popup/0/p review/1 By removing the "?" and "&" symbols, we make the URL easier for search engines to navigate. Now, the SEO company is suggesting that we shorten the URL right down to the following: http://www.domainname.com/83/ I've seen many sites use more human readable URLs like the above or like so: http://www.domainname.com/gardentools Which would take you to the garden tool category of a data driven web catalogue (instead of explicitly passing the category ID via the URL). TIA Cheers -- Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.480.1264 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.electricedgesystems.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:303786 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
