When selecting a directory to submit to - free or paid - does anyone give less priority to those withOUT Search Engine friendly URLs? Apparently Google's algos are giving a thumbs up to directories with Search Engine friendly URLs such as: www. directory.com/ links.html than they are with parameter URLs such as www. directory.com/ links.php?=23 Although, there Webmaster blog said they are spidering URLs with paremeters - analyzing the directories that were submitted to this forum for a period of one year, it appears that those using SE friendly URLs are the ones getting the better PageRank. Many of the directories using parameters are not getting PageRank - and much fewer are coming up on the new Google backlinks Webmaster tools. When selecting a directory to submit to - free or paid - does anyone give less priority to those withOUT Search Engine friendly URLs? What has the experiences of others been - it would be helpful to get a general concensus.
The relevance is to the address We have sites other than directories that we have had for years that have been indexed with a .asp .php or .jsp But the difference is very significant when you initiate a mod re-write to convert the dynamic page to a static .html page At this time we are in the process of mod re-writing a .asp with over 70,000 .asp references to .html and when we post to G with a sitemap the indexing increases significantly And our directories are .html
yes, search engine friendly URLs are more efficient than parameter URLs now a days Google Algos are more friendly for URLs which is search engine friendly.
Is there actually any evidence to support this? Digitalpoint doesn't have "SE friendly" urls, yet seems to rank for everything under the Sun.
Just experience! Try to switch to SE-friendly urls fron non-se-friendly urls yourself. You will notice traffic and PR increase.
Google and other major search engines can crawl almost all URLs. There is no advantage. But sitemap is helpful.
I guess you meed to do a little bit more experience with content sites. Google crawls everything (If you dont do anything wrong), the point is how they crawl.. And url rewrite is still very important. I know forums which has both url rewritten and not-rewritten versions of their threads. Not-written ones cant exceed PR1 but url-rewritten ones can be PR5. (Sorry i will not give forum's name )
LOL...yes, bots are picky. There can be infinite combinations of script.php?a=(number)&b=(number)...also they can point to the same page as well (only some preferences changed by a and b). This is normally not the case in SEF urls...finite and professional. URL rewrite is the way to go...pleasing for bots, surfers and webmasters.
I know that DP is the leader and totally agree. But being a leader does not mean that you have nothing to do anymore . If DP uses url-rewriting i am almost sure that they will have twice of the current page views! As a reference to this check comment of the owner of V7N forums about vbseo which does url-rewriting to vbulletin forums mainly.. Note that i am not supporting vbseo fully since i dont like some properties of it.
Where appropriate friendly URLs are much better - surfers are never going to remember anything unfriendly! With a large dynamic site however, friendly urls might confuse - url rewriting would be jolly good fun though! My site has categories that are not currently friendly and indexing has been a problem. Now rewritten to use url rewriting (update happening soon) so it will be interesting to see what happens...
Has anyone found this to be true: Too many identical anchor text backlinks is reputed sends red flags to search engines which are now ever the more vigilant about SEO - and will have a neutralizing effects on the benefits of the links. How often does everyone MODIFY the versions of TITLE text when submitting a site to directories?
Can you imagine the traffic increase boom with vBSEO? Wow. Check out my signature link for a forum that was doing "well on its own" before installing vBSEO.