There is another way... You can loop through your database of whatever you are displaying, be it a product catalog or content mgmt table, and use <cfhttp> to build actual static pages. Then store the url that corresponds to each product/page so that you can link to that instead of the dynamic url. This will enable you to index the pages, and should also take some strain from the server since it will serve up static pages rather than building cf pages every request. Of course this only works for relatively static content. You couldn't do too much customization/personalization of any pages displayed this way.
>>> Aidan Whitehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/09/01 04:25AM >>> A client has been speaking to someone who offers marketing services for web sites. They've recommended (i) altering query strings and (ii) renaming cfm extensions to .html and configuring the web server to parse .html files Couple of questions spring to mind... 1) I've used plainURL to convert the query string to index.cfm/SomethingID-1... is that good enough? He's recommended continuous slashes, like index.cfm/Something/1 (but if you do that it's a pain not having 2 delimiters). 2) They said that whilst some search engines didn't have a problem with cfm file extensions, 6 out of the top 15 (I think they were the numbers quoted) did. AOL and HotBot were mentioned. I did searches for ".cfm" and "ColdFusion" on them and a stack of sites running ColdFusion appeared. Is he talking market-speak? (ie b*****ox). 3) The hosting is with CFXHosting on their $100pm advanced option. Does anyone here know if they would map .html files to ColdFusion for a specific folder (ie would altering the IIS mapping for .html be a server wide modification, or can you constrain it to a particular user folder and below only?) Thanks -- Aidan Whitehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Macromedia ColdFusion Developer Fairbanks Environmental +44 (0)1695 51775 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
