This is what I'm gonna do: 1. Create Virtual Directories in IIS: (ie /public/about will be /about)
2. Incoming links such as http://www.mydomain.com/public/about will be redirected to http://www.mydomain.com/about as such with IIRF RedirectRule ^/public/about /about [R=301] Am I missing anything that anyone can see? Eventually Google should start pointing to the virtual directories and I won't lose anything now or then. -- Ryan LeTulle On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Dave Watts <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Unfortunately, everything is not in that folder. I toyed with Virtual > > Directories earlier. I am thinking of creating multiple virtual > directories > > like: > > /about , /about/staff ... , /visitors , /visitors/attractions > Does > > this make sense to you? > > Sure, assuming that these folders are parallel to the "pages" folder. > > > The client just doesn't want the "pages" folder to ever show in the path. > > Was told by "SEO experts" this is bad for Google and looks ugly. Maybe > it > > is bad but the pages they are referencing are their highest ranking pages > in > > Google so go figure. > > Well, I wouldn't want "/pages" in the path either, since it doesn't > add any meaningful value. Here's how I like my URLs: > > http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI > > That said, if their current pages rank highly with "/pages" in the > URL, they will be throwing that away (at least temporarily) if they > discard those URLs in favor of, well, anything else. > > And as far as SEO goes, it doesn't make any difference. But nowadays, > anybody can claim to be an "SEO expert"; it doesn't count for much. > Here's a decent SEO presentation by my coworker, Steve Drucker (who > isn't an "SEO expert", but doesn't claim to be - and who has as good > or better a working knowledge of SEO as many of these so-called > "experts"): > > http://figleaf.mmalliance.acrobat.com/seo/ > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > > Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, > Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. > Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more inf > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:323606 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
