Clarification on the perception that URLs aren't 'as important'.... ALL of the major search engines favor URLs that are representative of the page's content.
For instance....if you have a page marketing "Blue Widgets" THIS: http://www.yourdomain.com/product/blue-widgets.html Is much better than... http://www.yourdomain.com/product/index.cfm?id=3422&cat=342 Using URL rewriting strategies is imperative when representing the relevancy of underlying content and can definitely have an impact on page rank performance. There are numerous methods in use today to make this possible... ------------------------------------ Dark Horse Productions Johnny Thompson Director of Interactive Marketing [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7013 S. Stemmons Fwy Denton, TX. 76210 tel: 940.270.3620 fax: 214.853.5272 http://www.darkhorseproductions.com AIM: meatheadgku26 Skype ID:meathead_gku ------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: Joe Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 11:45 AM To: Dallas/Fort Worth ColdFusion User Group Mailing List Subject: Re: [DFW CFUG] DFW CFUG Web Site My only comment about either of these options is that it limits the portability of your code, if that is a consideration. Joe Kelly On 12/6/05, Dave Shuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pete Freitag also recently blogged about this on apache using mod_rewrite: > > http://www.petefreitag.com/item/503.cfm > > > > On 12/6/05, Gouger, Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This is just my two cent on here, but if truly having SES safe urls > > are required, there is a RegEx utility that runs under IIS to > > essentially remove any query string params make the links look like > > the second example to the user. So in other words, you can directly > > link to say mypage1.html instead of > > index.cfm?FuseAction=MyPage.Page1. Its available at > > http://www.isapirewrite.com/ > > > > Jordan > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jake McKee > > Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 12:41 PM > > To: Dallas/Fort Worth ColdFusion User Group Mailing List > > Subject: Re: [DFW CFUG] DFW CFUG Web Site > > > > Absolutely. SES URLs are a function of your code, not the CF server > > itself. You'd just have to figure out what method you want to search > > the URL to find the query string... i.e. instead of: > > > > www.mysite.com/index.cfm?page=testpage > > > > you'd do something like: > > > > www.mysite.com/index.cfm/page/testpage > > > > And yes, I too am reading more and more that the SES practices of > > eliminating query strings doesn't matter as much on most of the > > major search engines (yahoo, msn, google) as it once did. I think > > they are looking much more at page content than anything else. I > > have heard that there are certain rankings, however - i.e. that a > > query string url isn't ranked as high as it's non-query-string > > equivalent, but that's just rumor so far. > > > > Donna French wrote: > > > > >If I'm not mistaken CF is also able to generate SE friendly URLs also? > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > List mailing list > > Reply to DFWCFUG: > > [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > > http://lists1.safesecureweb.com/mailman/listinfo/list > > List Archive: > > http://lists1.safesecureweb.com/mailman/private/list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > List mailing list > > Reply to DFWCFUG: > > [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > > http://lists1.safesecureweb.com/mailman/listinfo/list > > List Archive: > > http://lists1.safesecureweb.com/mailman/private/list > > DFWCFUG Sponsors: www.HostMySite.com www.teksystems.com/ > > > > > > -- > ~Dave Shuck > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.daveshuck.com > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > Reply to DFWCFUG: > [email protected] > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists1.safesecureweb.com/mailman/listinfo/list > List Archive: > http://lists1.safesecureweb.com/mailman/private/list > DFWCFUG Sponsors: www.HostMySite.com www.teksystems.com/ > _______________________________________________ List mailing list Reply to DFWCFUG: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists1.safesecureweb.com/mailman/listinfo/list List Archive: http://lists1.safesecureweb.com/mailman/private/list DFWCFUG Sponsors: www.HostMySite.com www.teksystems.com/ _______________________________________________ List mailing list Reply to DFWCFUG: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists1.safesecureweb.com/mailman/listinfo/list List Archive: http://lists1.safesecureweb.com/mailman/private/list DFWCFUG Sponsors: www.HostMySite.com www.teksystems.com/
