Hi All, First off...the question was how to do it the way this SEO company is aksing.
So let's clarify shall we.... 1) We currently transform this: http://www.domainname.com/index.cfm?pg=listing_details&id=83&hit=1&popup=0 into this: http://www.domainname.com/index.cfm/pg/listing_details/id/83/hit/1/popup/0 So the ? and = are gone and it now looks like directories instead of variable to bots for example "/pg/listing details" equates to "pg=listing details". 2) THE QUESTION (for those that couldn't find it..hehe) An SEO company would prefer to see http://www.domainname.com/furry The BIG difference here is "furry" must equate to "?pg=listing_details&id=83&hit=1&popup=0" I think we can all see the difference....it's quite different than what we do now in # 1 above. The first example still plainly shows the key/value pairs. What the SEO comapnmy is asking for does NOT. So how does one go about doing this WITHOUT an Apache mod rewrite (as this is hosted on Windows for better or for worse)???? BTW....that was the question ;-) Thanks in advance 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 Notice: This message, including any attachments, is confidential and may contain information that is privileged or exempt from disclosure. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed unless expressly authorized otherwise by the sender. If you are not an authorized recipient, please notify the sender immediately and permanently destroy all copies of this message and attachments. On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 20:27 -0400, Russ wrote: > I think he would probably want it to be something like > > http://www.domain.com/garden_tools/83 > > Then all you have to do is ignore the first directory and pass the second > directory to CF. You can have a generic rewrite done in Apache > > Something like > > RewriteRule ^/([^/]+)/([0-9]+)/* > http://www.domainname.com/index.cfm?pg=listing_details&id=$2&hit=1&popup=0&p > review=1 > > Russ > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Adrian Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 7:06 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: RE: URL re-write SEO friendly > > > > 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:303882 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
