Re: Search Engine Friendly URLS

2006-11-16 Thread Claude Schneegans
>> but the ranking algorithms place SES urls higher than the ugly IDs. It doesn't make much sense to me, particularly when you look at all the fake search result pages that are filled with text ads, but that get high ranks because of their SES URLs. Yeah, those sites are really a plague. But not

Re: Search Engine Friendly URLS

2006-11-16 Thread Matt Robertson
On 11/16/06, Claude Schneegans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know that even Google claims it won't search pages with something like > ?id=1234 in the URL, > but it is simply not true. I have all my sites with such url, and they > all get searched every day, Yes, but a page with relevant keywords

RE: Search Engine Friendly URLS

2006-11-16 Thread Munson, Jacob
> I know that even Google claims it won't search pages with > something like > ?id=1234 in the URL, > but it is simply not true. I have all my sites with such url, > and they > all get searched every day, > in particular by Google. Sure, Google still indexes the pages, but the ranking algorith

Re: Search Engine Friendly URLS

2006-11-16 Thread Claude Schneegans
>>Because search engines favor sites that have real words in their URL I know that even Google claims it won't search pages with something like ?id=1234 in the URL, but it is simply not true. I have all my sites with such url, and they all get searched every day, in particular by Google. I thin

Re: Search Engine Friendly URLS

2006-11-16 Thread Matt Robertson
Also the use of a written url is easier for people to manually key in and remember. Not an SE issue but its a usability aid. http://mydomain.com/free_schwag vs. http://mydomain.com/page.cfm?ID=F26B793A-D71D-55EF-5F954FBA75949A31 :D -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Janitor, MSB Web Systems mysecretbase.c

Re: Search Engine Friendly URLS

2006-11-16 Thread Matt Robertson
On 11/16/06, Claude Schneegans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it really more "Search Engine Friendly"? Why? It (presumably) uses relevant keywords in the url. It is not a dynamic link so as such an engine will follow links on the current page. Most bots won't go more than one level deep on a dy

RE: Search Engine Friendly URLS

2006-11-16 Thread Munson, Jacob
> >>To Search Engine Friendly URL such as > > >>domain.com/news/example_news_story > > Is it really more "Search Engine Friendly"? Why? Because search engines favor sites that have real words in their URL that match the page content. For example, I have a blog entry about a JavaScript isNumer

Re: Search Engine Friendly URLS

2006-11-16 Thread Claude Schneegans
>>To Search Engine Friendly URL such as >>domain.com/news/example_news_story Is it really more "Search Engine Friendly"? Why? -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any spam to this addr

RE: Search Engine Friendly URLS

2006-11-16 Thread David Low
AIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 16 November 2006 13:41 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Search Engine Friendly URLS > > Ivan, > > I do this via a 404 error: > > http://www.bennadel.com/index.cfm?dax=blog:286.view > > Currently though, I create the URL manually though: >

RE: Search Engine Friendly URLS

2006-11-16 Thread Joshua Cyr
My understanding is that to do exactly that depends on the web server you are using. Apache vs IIS, etc. http://www.petefreitag.com/item/286.cfm are some examples for IIS. However if you were ok with domain.com/index.cfm/news/example_news_story you can do that with a few code changes. Check o

RE: Search Engine Friendly URLS

2006-11-16 Thread Ben Nadel
Ivan, I do this via a 404 error: http://www.bennadel.com/index.cfm?dax=blog:286.view Currently though, I create the URL manually though: #qNews.title# So, no auto-created URLs, but I can catch pretty urls. .. Ben Nadel Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX7 Developer www.b

Re: search engine friendly urls

2005-01-11 Thread Bert Dawson
Prior to FB3 there was a customtag called formURL2attributes. Later versions of this tag included the SES conversion stuff, but when FB3 was released the form and URL scope copying was moved to the core files, and the SES stuff to a separate SESconverter.cfm. So, if you want to use SES stuff in FB

Re: search engine friendly urls

2005-01-10 Thread Duncan I Loxton
I was just wondering if Fusebox 3 and 4 had this natively, Bert - how do I approach this and use it? All our apps use FB3 4.5 and we are moving them slowly but surely to MX and FB4. Duncan On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 06:55:50 -0500, Doug Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a tutorial I wrote: >

Re: search engine friendly urls

2005-01-10 Thread Doug Hughes
Here's a tutorial I wrote: http://www.doughughes.net/index.cfm/page-blogLink/entryId-45 And here's a gotcha if you use jrun: http://www.doughughes.net/index.cfm/page-blogLink/entryId-37 On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 06:28:36 -0400, Jack Dalaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're on IIS, I highly recom

Re: search engine friendly urls

2005-01-10 Thread Jack Dalaa
If you're on IIS, I highly recommend downloading ISAPI Rewrite (www.isapirewrite.com), then use the following rules in httpd.ini: [ISAPI_Rewrite] RepeatLimit 20 # Defend your computer from some worm attacks RewriteRule (/dyn/.*?)(\?[^/]*)?/([^/]*)/([^/]*)(.+?)? $1(?2$2&:\?)$3=$4?5$5: [N,I] Rew

Re: search engine friendly urls

2005-01-10 Thread Bert Dawson
SESconverter from http://www.fusium.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=ses.intro should do the trick. Cheers Bert (ps FYI, when fusebox 3 was released the SES stuff from formURL2attributes.cfm was tweaked and repackaged as SESconverter.cfm) On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:07:41 +1100, Duncan I Loxton <[EMAIL PROT

Re: search engine friendly urls

2005-01-10 Thread Duncan I Loxton
Thanks everyone - thats fantastic. On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 22:23:12 -0800, Tim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Duncan, > http://tutorial90.easycfm.com/ > > Duncan I Loxton wrote: > > >Can anyone point me in the direction of a tag or tutorial on how to > >convert a url and all its bits into a Sea

Re: search engine friendly urls

2005-01-09 Thread Tim Davis
Duncan, http://tutorial90.easycfm.com/ Duncan I Loxton wrote: >Can anyone point me in the direction of a tag or tutorial on how to >convert a url and all its bits into a Search engine firendly one? i.e. >uses all \ rather than the standard ? and = and & > >Specifically for CF 4.5 right now, but a

Re: search engine friendly urls

2005-01-09 Thread Michael Dinowitz
http://www.fusionauthority.com/Article.cfm/ArticleID=4226 This is an MX article, but the techniques can go for CF 4.5 and 5 quite easily. > Can anyone point me in the direction of a tag or tutorial on how to > convert a url and all its bits into a Search engine firendly one? i.e. > uses all \ ra

Re: search engine friendly urls

2005-01-09 Thread Tim Davis
Duncan I Loxton wrote: >Can anyone point me in the direction of a tag or tutorial on how to >convert a url and all its bits into a Search engine firendly one? i.e. >uses all \ rather than the standard ? and = and & > >Specifically for CF 4.5 right now, but also for MX later. > >And is it really wo

Re: Search Engine-Friendly URLs

2002-07-10 Thread Jamie Jackson
Thanks for the answers, folks. Jamie On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 17:27:42 -0400, in cf-talk you wrote: >I wrote an ISAPI filter designed to only do the search engine safe url >replacement, so it's pretty fast. You can get the DLL and source here: >http://www.cfdev.com/products/ > >-pete > >-Original

re: Search Engine-Friendly URLs

2002-07-09 Thread Todd
Your right, I get the 500 server error from Apache, not the 404 error. =) ~Todd At 08:05 PM 7/9/2002 -0400, you wrote: >For Apache 1.x (don't know about 2) you have to add the following >directive to the [virtual] host setup: > >ScriptAliasMatch (.*\.cfm) "c:/site_root$1" > >where c:/site_root

re: Search Engine-Friendly URLs

2002-07-09 Thread Max Paperno
For Apache 1.x (don't know about 2) you have to add the following directive to the [virtual] host setup: ScriptAliasMatch (.*\.cfm) "c:/site_root$1" where c:/site_root is the physical path to your site. This will "enable" the CGI.SCRIPT_NAME variable so it contains the full extended path info

RE: Search Engine-Friendly URLs

2002-07-09 Thread Pete Freitag
I wrote an ISAPI filter designed to only do the search engine safe url replacement, so it's pretty fast. You can get the DLL and source here: http://www.cfdev.com/products/ -pete -Original Message- From: Jamie Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 4:16 PM To: C

Re: Search Engine-Friendly URLs

2002-07-09 Thread Jamie Jackson
Thanks, I'm reading http://www.sys-con.com/coldfusion/article.cfm?id=388 right now. Thanks, Jamie On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 13:31:59 -0700, in cf-talk you wrote: >Here's a version of that tag. Snipped it out of an app I have that uses it. Got it >from a link on http://forta.com awhile back. I thi

re: Search Engine-Friendly URLs,

2002-07-09 Thread Matt Robertson
My dev server at home uses Apache - I forget which version... Its about 9 months old - and it works fine, with that one cgi var change. I didn't reconfig anything, which wasn't the case with IIS. If there's something I can check for you, or you want a copy of my config file, let me know. BT

re: Search Engine-Friendly URLs,

2002-07-09 Thread todd
FYI, since this has come up and someone has mentioned Apache, has anyone gotten this to work on Apache without having to use mod_rewrite? As it stands right now, I can't get apache to accept the subsitution of ? for / without Apache throwing me a 404 error... Anyone know how to configure Apac

Re: Search Engine-Friendly URLs

2002-07-09 Thread Matt Robertson
Here's a version of that tag. Snipped it out of an app I have that uses it. Got it from a link on http://forta.com awhile back. I think the only meaningful thing I changed was add a test to see if cgi.query_string was GT 0. If you use Apache, you'll need to substitute CGI.REQUEST_URI for CGI

RE: Search Engine-Friendly URLs

2002-07-09 Thread Jim Vosika
It was featured in the January 2001 issue of CFDJ. In his code example he shows the tag . HTH, Jim Vosika http://tinyclick.com Free URL Shortening! -Original Message- From: Jamie Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 3:16 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Search Engine-

Re: Search engine friendly URLS in IIS broken ?

2000-09-13 Thread Max Paperno
James, SP6a breaks exactly this functionality in IIS that you describe -- using a different file extension at the end of a URL will screw up CFM processing. The trick I learned here, from Dave Watts I believe, is to use the following line right before you deliver the file to be downloaded via

RE: Search Engine Friendly URLS: One More Time

2000-06-20 Thread Bill
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0047_01BFDAD1.B80BBBE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The way I solve this is by creating seperate transition that are optimized for search engines that point back to the Col