--- Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On your error page, you can automatically forward the user to another > page. You can set up whatever rules you want, within your error page, > to calculate which page the user should be sent to. > > I have a site which displays properties. I want visitors to be able to > find the properties fast, so I tell them to go to > http://hahomes.com/348 > and it goes to a custom error page, notices that the page you requested > is simply a number (348), displays a "please wait whilst I find you > property 348, and then forwards you to the page which shows you property > number 348. Very easy for a user to use! > > -- > Pete Clark
That probably works most of the time but the search engine spiders may not like it. We had a situation where a requested page sent a 404 and then forwarded to the correct page and the spiders stopped as soon as they saw the 404. It really hurt our search engine ranking. A series of mod_rewrite rules would be better in this instance. You could look for a number after the domain name and use it as a GET variable for your lookup script. James ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/HKFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Community email addresses: Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shortcut URL to this page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
