I give up I've been trying for 3 weeks to get some pages i have into a spiderable state but I've failed miserably. In return for someone sorting this out I am quite happy to put a link on 5 or 6 sites if you want i will add a link to the footer file on the site in question currently around 700 pages and growing. Below is a current page I'd love this to read http://www.trackbikes.co.uk/store/page3.htm or something similar and the same for all 271 pages!.. http://www.trackbikes.co.uk/store/s...3&search=Motorcycles&searchtype=KeywordSearch
here is the tuto that will get you on the right track http://www.datakoncepts.com/seo as you have a couple of vars you will end up with http://www.trackbikes.co.uk/store/en/books/page3.htm or http://www.trackbikes.co.uk/store/motorcycles/en/page3.htm each var you intercept into $1 or $2 or $4 etc you can use or not use! or use in different sequence. Expat
domain.com/.htaccess Options +Indexes Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^store/page(.*).htm$ store/store.htm?language=en&locale=uk&mode=books&page=$1&search=Motorcycles&searchtype=KeywordSearch [L] This is ONLY if the only change in the store URLs is the page number. If search, mode language or locale changes, it'll need to be a longer rewrited URL.
Thanks, I tried that but the url is still showing up as http://www.trackbikes.co.uk/store/s...2&search=Motorcycles&searchtype=KeywordSearch I know mod rewrite works as I already have 2 scripts using it already, one being phpbb any ideas what I could have done wrong? Does the .htaccess need to be in the root or in the store folder. (I've tried both)
Yes, you got it working.... http://www.trackbikes.co.uk/store/store/page25.htm Just has an extra directory. Looks like it's the one at domain.com/store/.htaccess that's doing it. So what ever is there, delete and upload up to domain.com/.htacess Or delete domain.com/.htaccess and have Options +Indexes Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on RewriteBase /store/ RewriteRule ^page(.*).htm$ store.htm?language=en&locale=uk&mode=books&page=$1&search=Motorcycles&searchtype=KeywordSearch [L] at domain.com/store/.htaccess
Thanks for all the help nintendo, I think I am almost there, the next question may well be because of a complete lack of understanding on my behalf, so accept my apollogies in advance! I can now manually enter a SEO friendly ur, l i.e http://www.trackbikes.co.uk/store/page8.htm However if I then press the next button instead of getting http://www.trackbikes.co.uk/store/ page9.htm that I would expect I get http://www.trackbikes.co.uk/store/p...9&search=Motorcycles&searchtype=KeywordSearch BTW Pm me any links you want placing
In the script some where it has the code that generates the links. That needs to be changed. (I've never used that script, I use MrRats.) Search for something like KeywordSearch until you see something that looks like the link.
Something like echo "<li><a href='store/page". 'page' .'='.($page-1) .'&'. .html"'>".xu('previous results')."</a></li>\n"; with the page change for all three is all I can guess. You might want to E-Mail the person who created the script.
I actuallly emailed him before and didn't get very far, I've now decided to call it quits and i've installed another script that was SE friendly out of the box (so to speak!) thank you for all your help it was much appreciated.