Eron,
I was curious if it would be possible to append the regular querystring to
the SEF URL to enable better reporting by Webtrends
For example, using your SEF URL example of:
http://www.mysite.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/test/color/blue/test.htm
would become:
http://www.mysite.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/test/color/blue/test.htm?fuseacti
on=test&color=blue
That way, maybe both the search engines and Webtrends can be happy.
Nelson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eron Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Fusebox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 11:33 AM
Subject: RE: Search Engine Safe URLs (now w/Webtrends)
> 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
>
>
>
> >
> >
>
>http://forums.allaire.com/devconf/Index.cfm?CFID=130074&CFTOKEN=79816184&&M
essage_ID=18401#Message18401
>
> 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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