Converting links?

So I know it's better for SEO, etc to have http://www.site.com/page1/ instead of http://www.site.com/page.php?id=1 or whatever.

So how do you do it? I'm assuming it uses PHP, maybe .htaccess too, but a link to somewhere that explains or an explination would be great

Thanks,
TS

 

research "Mod_Rewrite"

That is how it is done, and it coded using mostly regex (regular expressions) in, as you know, the .htaccess file.

I own this book, and highly recommend it.

www. amazon .com/Definitive-Guide-Apache-mod_rewrite/dp/1590595610/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210643808&sr=8-1

remove the space before and after amazon

 

I use links in a format that don't require htaccess:

http://site.com/?Page*Variable1*....

Code (markup):

and then I get the values using PHP:

list($page,$variables1,...) = explode('*',$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);

PHP:

Another option you have is htaccess.

Peace,

 

Thanks, i'll look into mod_rewrite and see what I can do

 

Use the following in your .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^LINK/(.*)\.html index.php?foo=$1 [L]

Code (markup):

This will redirect yoursite.com/LINK/variable1.html to index.php?foo=variable1

Hope that helps!

 

Try this out.

http://www.linkvendor.com/seo-tools/url-rewrite.html

 

Thanks for that.

 

Hi, there is another issue when converting internal links. Here is the problem: I have a site, say, asite.com, I set up a 301 redirect in a .htaccess file so that everyone who types asite.com get to www .asite.com, and now I need to replace all internal links on my site with URLs containing www. Is there a way to do that using .htaccess?

 

I have found a solution. To tell the truth, it was a Joomla issue. If anyone experiences such a trouble, here is a solution to make a Joomla site SEO friendly:
- On Google webmasters' page, check the first option so that your site will be seen as www .example.com.
- In Joomla, edit the configuration.php file in /public_html and set "live site" to the URL with "www". Joomla internal links will then display correctly.
- To enhance Web site security, it is advisable to move your configuration.php out of public_html directory to your root directory and renaming it to "site.conf". Then you should change the contents of the original configuration.php to:
<?
require( ‘/home/USERNAME/site.conf’ );
?>
where USERNAME is your account name.

 

check this article about exactly doing this......

http://roshanbh.com.np/2008/02/hide-php-url-rewriting-htaccess.html