In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phill Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >It's quite possibly a good thing that search engine's can't see these >routes, as, in many cases, they shouldn't really exist anyway.. we're >just trying to make our sites more friendly to the users.
This is the point exactly. A VERY good thing, because there is no duplication of content. In fact, the search engines would never see our "short links", as they always are given out over the phone, or by email, and never appear in the web pages anywhere. > What you >can do to help search engines (and users) is provide a more accurate >error code. Create a list of pages that no longer exist and a map of >pages that have moved and return the relevant codes for GONE (410) and >MOVED (301). If the failed page is in neither list then you could >return a 404 as the page probably doesn't and never did exist. This is already done elsewhere, but the original question was one of redirection based on something in the URL. In our case, we have developed a system to allow people deep into our web pages, with a simple URL that can be given out over the phone You can say http://hahomes.com/348 over the phone, it is a little more difficult to give the full "correct" URL of http://www.fourwood.com/foursale/showdetail.php?pr=348&S=105 ... and much more likely to be accurately typed in. It has nothing to do with missing pages. Try http://www.hahomes.com/nopagehere.html That works, and it sends me an email to say that someone tried to find a missing page. I could probably do it with .htaccess now, but I didn't know enough about htaccess in those days, and now - if it ain't broke... <G> -- Pete Clark Free advertising for your website, business, or organisation at: http://www.hotcosta.com/resources.php 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/
