How to Create dummy directory for SEO ranking

Discussion in 'PHP' started by gnomeplanet, Aug 4, 2012.

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    Hi - I am a travel photographer as well as a php/mysql web developer. I have a number of images with Getty, and was interested to see that when displaying one of my images, they use a directory name based on the image title, then the image id number in the web URL, presumably for SEO ranking purposes.

    URL example:

    http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/london-underground-tube-sign-outside-big-high-res-stock-photography/148624493

    They obviously don't have a separate directory for each of their milllions of images, so I assume the middle named directory is a dummy, created on the fly, and bypassed on the fly when the viewer wants to see the '148624493' image.

    My question: how is this done, and could I do something similar on my own php/mysql site? Any tips, hints, guides or links to descriptions or tutorials will be much appreciated. I have done a lot of searching but come up with nothing useful so far.

    Regards, Tim Makins, currently travelling in Laos.
    http://www.gnomeplanet.com/gallery.php
     
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  2. ryogi

    ryogi Peon

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    That is done with the help of htaccess file on Apache. You can probably set up a wordpress blog for this purpose if you dont want to spend too much time on this. I can offer paid help to do the same, if you need any assistance. PM me if interested.
     
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  3. PK-Host

    PK-Host Guest

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    Changes are the actual file your accessing in that link is something like www.gettyimages.com/detail.php or something like that to do it you need to learn about mod_rewrite. I only know the basics of it.

    In this example it will allow you to remove the .php extension in the urls.

    
Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteRule ^(.*)\/$ $1.php [nc]
    PHP:
     
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    search and download for arfoo php script
     
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  5. gnomeplanet

    gnomeplanet Greenhorn

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    Thanks, PK-Host, for the information - that gives me plenty to work with.

    I have subsequently found out that this technique is called 'URL Rewriting'. A quick search for this will find plenty of useful tutorials, so anyone else who needs to do this will soon find out all of the information needed - definitely no need to pay anyone to do it for you !!!

    Here's something to start with:
    http://www.addedbytes.com/for-beginners/url-rewriting-for-beginners/
    http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/136
    http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html

    Tim Makins
     
    gnomeplanet, Aug 6, 2012 IP