On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 01:17 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote: > Nathan Rixham schreef: > > Ashley Sheridan wrote: > >> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:54 -0700, Ryan S wrote: > >>> quite a few sites seem to have a very neat way of implementing this > >>> with (url rewriting?) something like > >>> http://sitename/blog/tags/tag-comes-here/ > > > >> As for getting those search terms, well a link in a page can contain GET > >> values, such as http://www.somedomain.com/blog?tag=search_term . > >> Alternatively, you could use mod-rewrite to rewrite the URL and turn the > >> path into tag variables. This is the same as the above but with the > >> added benefit that users can type in tags directly more easily, and > >> there are apparently benefits for SEO with this method as well (but I'm > >> not sure how true that is) > > > > it's very true; from the google webmaster guidelines: > > > > If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a "?" > > character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic > > pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and > > the number of them few. > > > > previously it was text along the lines of "google doesn't index all > > pages with query parameters, so avoid them where possible" > > > > additionally one of the weightier points in categorising pages within > > the SERPS is the text in the url (especially if the page is actually > > about /the_tag_in_the_url : see http://www.google.com/search?q=tags) > > ^-- some what > ironic :-) > > > > Yeah I saw that too...
What always gets me is that forums always feature really high on search results, and I've yet to see one of these forums use URL rewriting! I really think this belief about query-less URLs being more search engine friendly is outdated. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
