why not just use URL rewriting to point http://www.mydomain.com/cars/toyota/tacoma at http://www.mydomain.com/car_results.cfm?make=toyota&model=tacoma seems like this would be a much simpler solution
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Dave Hatz <[email protected]>wrote: > > Dave, > Thanks for the feedback. Let me try to explain how the client site is > currently set up. Client has a search results page on his site, like this > > http://www.mydomain.com/car_results.cfm?make=toyota&model=tacoma where > the Car Model and Type are passed in as parameters. The page uses CSS, JS > and Images folders to produce the results page. > > Then he has gone and set up links that are set up on other sites to point > to something like this > > http://www.mydomain.com/cars/toyota/tacoma > > and what the client wants is the for the .cmf page under /tacoma to parse > the url for the car type and model then display the results on his > car_results.cfm page from his site. So our index.cfm parses the url and > gets the make and model then redirects using CFLOCATION to the > car_results.cfm page. > > Client is trying to gain SEO rankings on his > http://www.mydomain.com/cars/toyota/tacoma page. He has folders for > different makers/models of cars, which is 100's of different folders. We > didn't want to have to create the same results page in all these different > folders. > > You mentioned this approach was not a good idea. I would love to find a > better approach and your thoughts on how we can improve this design. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:349598 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
