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URL rewriting from php?id=1_0_1_0_C to directory: still useful?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by FlashVictim, Oct 31, 2005.

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    Before I go though the hassle of doing this: is it useful to do?

    This feature allows your site to display URLs that are easier for search engines to index. Normally, the URLs of the site look something like this:

    http://www.yoursite.com/comments.php?id=1_0_1_0_C

    With the URL rewriting feature enabled, URLs will instead look like this:

    http://www.yoursite.com/comments/1_0_1_0_C/
    This fools search engines into thinking that they are accessing a directory index rather than dynamic content, which greatly increasing the chance that your site will be thoroughly indexed.
     
    FlashVictim, Oct 31, 2005 IP
  2. mattmdesign

    mattmdesign Well-Known Member

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    Yes, I think it would be even better if you could get your page's title into the URL too though.
     
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  3. jabz.biz

    jabz.biz Active Member

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    Yeah do this. The "?" can be your death! ...I heard from pros! :) For me it´s working not too bad!
     
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  4. FlashVictim

    FlashVictim Guest

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    Ok it is a hell of a job but I guess it will be worth it in the end!
     
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  5. Roze

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    URL's with one ? usually get picked up fine, look at this forum, threads are ?t=39285 no problem...
     
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    tandac Active Member

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    I recently redid my site to use modrewrite. If you have a well designed site that uses templates effectively and a good database backend, changing to a modrewrite style shouldn't be too difficult.

    I switched www.bbconnector.com over and all I really had to do was update a 6-12 pages and all was good.
     
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  7. minstrel

    minstrel Illustrious Member

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    There are I think at least two other threads on this question at DP.

    You really don't need mod_rewrite and there are some downsides to using it.

    See the HTML and phpBB-vBulletin forums.
     
    minstrel, Oct 31, 2005 IP
  8. Roze

    Roze Guest

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    Yeah, one of those downsides is having too many rewrites can bring a server down!

    My site started as a PHPNuke installation - when I got savvy to SE-friendliness I installed the google tap module which mod rewrites every area of the site, well guess what, nuke runs every page off of one URL - modules.php or gate.html after it was rewritten.

    As my traffic increased, the server load on my VPS was huge thanks to that .htaccess file. I've since redone each site area into little standalone programs with their own .htaccess and it's much smoother. It's been good practice and I've learned alot of PHP and Mod rewrite skills in the process...scary for a while though, it was like my site was about to go down at any minute.
     
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    minstrel Illustrious Member

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    Another is creation of duplicate content.

    The bottom line is (1) you don't need it and (2) in most cases you are better off not doing it.
     
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  10. dave487

    dave487 Peon

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    I also don't think its needed, I just got 12,000 pages listed within a few weeks all of them having a ? in the URL.

    One thing I always try and do is steer clear of page.php3?id=79 and change page.php3?keyword=79.

    I find this works well and gets another keyword in the url, only use it if it is sensible to do so though.
     
    dave487, Nov 2, 2005 IP
  11. costy81gl

    costy81gl Well-Known Member

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    guys can you help to rewrite 3 nuke sites? what scrips do I need?
     
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  12. Nintendo

    Nintendo ♬ King of da Wackos ♬

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    Options +Indexes
    Options +FollowSymlinks
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^comments/([^.]+)/$ comments.php?id=$1 [L]

    But if you got pages already indexed, don't do it!! Duplicate content!!!!
     
    Nintendo, Jan 6, 2006 IP