Hi Steve,
Mark Stanton (I think) alluded to this problem earlier and I have been trying to confirm the response codes ever since. I found a tool at http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp that reports the headers for a URL that you enter on the form. So far I've tried two sites that I have converted (numerous pages on both) and they are all coming back with response codes of 200. (I wonder whether Apache2 might have changed this behaviour from Apache 1.X?) So, hopefully, Google will continue to visit!
Thanks,
Brett B)
Steve Onnis wrote:
Although it may work, its not very good for search engines. When a search engine indexes your site, all its going to get returned is 404-page not found and your site will start to loose its ranking. One of the main purposes for "friendly URLs" is to be friendly for search engines and all it does it kill the search engine friendliness because of the 404 your creating.
I remember myself and Mark Mandel tested this, and because of the handshake its not very good.
Steve Onnis
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Hi Jason,
Don't kow what is going on with Spike's site, and like you I couldn't find the friendlyURL area. But I did work out how to use friendly URLs on my own site.
Let me clarrify though... I was already using URLs like http://domain.com/index.cfm/pagename and I simply wanted to use http://domain.com/pagename instead.
And in the end it was quite easy. I just needed to do two things...
1) Add "ErrorDocument 404 /index.cfm" to the VirtualHost entry for the website in the Apache http.conf file.
2) In index.cfm I needed to examine the cgi variable 'request_uri' to get the url parameters I would normally expect to find after '/index.cfm/' in the 'path_info' cgi variable.
As far as I can tell Apache doesn't send a response code of 404 (but I'm still trying to confirm that) but it does log it in the error.log as:
"File does not exist: C:/webroot/domain.com/pagename"
What I'd like to see is a 'nolog' option on the ErrorDocument directive! But I think I can live with it...
Regards,
Brett B)
Jason Sheedy wrote:
Hi Brett, did you have any luck finding the friendlyURL area on spikes site? I've tried http://www.spike.org.uk/go/friendly-urls, which I found at daemonite, but it seems to just display spikes blog without any of the parent layout/css. Doesn't look like that was a friendly url at least. ;P
Jason Sheedy www.voice.com.au
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