Re: Yet another SEO/URL rewrite question....

2009-03-20 Thread Will Tomlinson
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Re: Yet another SEO/URL rewrite question....

2009-03-19 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Wednesday 18 Mar 2009, Will Tomlinson wrote: Will googlebot care? Will I be penalized? I doubt it, but it's a black box :-) Your users might be surprised, however, which is normally bad. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to proactively transition interactive systems as part of the IT team of the

Re: Yet another SEO/URL rewrite question....

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Dinowitz
.baseball is a non-standard extension and does not fit the 3-4 letter norm so Google may not like it. some-cool-products.cfm is valid but the name should be contextual to the content of the file. If your product is baseballs and footballs, I'd suggest

Re: Yet another SEO/URL rewrite question....

2009-03-19 Thread Peter Boughton
Two answers... First: Make sure the content mime-type is correct (i.e. text/html) and you'll be fine. If it's not correctly set automatically, you can use cfcontent/cfheader to set it manually. Secondly: Nobody except Google can *accurately* tell you if Googlebot will care. (Though I

Yet another SEO/URL rewrite question....

2009-03-18 Thread Will Tomlinson
I'm planning on using onMissingMethod() to create some pretty URL's for products, using a new db field (productPrettyTitle) in my products table. I'd rather not use an ISAPI filter right now. Everything seems to work OK so far, but I wondered what would happen if I took it a step further.