Hi Folks,
I would like to extend this thread further by asking a
question about Webtrends. But first off, anyone
interested in search engine technology, I recommend
joining the I-search mailing list:
http://www.audettemedia.com/lists/isearch/subscribe.html
I have to agree with Max, it really IS easy to
impliment Search Engine Safe URLs if you are using the
fusebox <CF_formurl2attributes> custom tag and
Internet Information Server (I think its possible with
Apache now too). Its probably worth it too, because
as Max stated, very few search engines will do
anything with your URL parameters which means that if
you do nothing else, its possible that only your
default INDEX.CFM page would be indexed. The point of
search engine safe URLs is to "Trick" a search engine
into thinking the query string is actually the path to
an actual HTML file.
For those of you who don't already know, to use search
engine safe URLs you basically just switch your ? and
&'s to /s and if you want to be extra clever you add a
"fake" filename.HTM to the end (I use the name of the
fuseaction for this.
So instead of:
http://www.mysite.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=test&color=blue
It would be:
http://www.mysite.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/test/color/blue/test.htm
The question I have is: are then any techniques for
getting webtrends to see search engine safe URLS as
actual URLS. It would sure be great to find a way to
get webtrends to give me more accurate information
about my site. Any info or pointers would be
appreciated.
Eron
-----Original Message-----
From: Max Paperno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 6:24 PM
To: Fusebox
Subject: RE: Search Engine Safe URLs
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That thread still lives! Ben's original post is what
inspired myself and others to use this method.
I'm not sure how it's "not worth the hassle" if you
care about being indexed. True, Google will now index
URLs with query strings, but AFAIK that's the only
major search engine that does. It's really quite easy
to implement, especially using Fusebox.
I suggest you check the list archives, if you haven't
yet... this topic has been beat to death in the last
month or two.
Cheers,
-Max
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