Sorry, wrong mailing list! But this tag at least will tell you how to
perform the trick, (turn / parameters into URL parameters), and you could
put the tag in your application.cfm.
Dave
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Maddison, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: 07 June 2001 11:45
>> To: Spectra-Talk
>> Subject: RE: search engine searching
>>
>>
>> Whilst IIS doesn't have the 'Apache rewrite' rules that the
>> article talks
>> about, there is a tag on fusebox.org that may be able to
>> help. Here's the
>> readme file, that I've cribbed, (sorry Steve :-):
>> --------------------------------------------
>> <cf_FormURL2AttributesSearch>
>> This tag does one more thing. Many of the major search
>> engines (like
>> altavista, lycos excite etc)
>> usually do not accept URLs with Query_strings in them i.e.
>> index.cfm?fuseaction=blah
>> But they think they are looking at a static file they will
>> accept the URL.
>> If you change
>> all of your ? & and = in your URLs to / and add a .htm to
>> the end of the
>> link the search
>> engines will not skip over that URL, thus giving your site
>> more coverage.
>>
>> You can use this syntax instead of the normal ? & = syntax
>> and this tag will
>> still work.
>>
>> For example:
>> normal style:
>> http://www.irenovate.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=homepage&cfid=
333&cftoken=3839
4
Search engine style:
http://www.irenovate.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/homepage/cfid/333/cftoken/3839
4.htm
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Hope this helps,
Dave Maddison
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