Eg. mydomain.com/?cat=1 to mydomain.com/category-name Is there any straight forward easy solution? Pete
mydomain.com/?cat=1 is already very seo friendly. The search engines indexes dynamic links with 1 variable as easily as an html file. The problem arises when you have more than 2 variables in it
webmistress, i have seen indexed pages upto three variables in it. index.php?var=1&var2=3 and index.php?var=1&var2=2 are two entirely different pages for SEs. i still don't understand the myth behind SE friendly URLs. but there is one thing, keywords in URLs. that is a big factor i think and this var=something stuff kills that part. so it is not advisable to change ?cat=1 to /1, but to /cat-name.
You're describing SE friendlyness - from an SEO aspect (and with the future in mind) I'd prefer ?cat=1 to be my keyword. Do you know if this is possible? I notice on Shoes blog he has /category/category-name/ for his categories, rather than ?cat=1, 2 etc. I'd rather have back-links built to point to this then a variable as it obviously makes it better for the future if I we're to change how I did things. Pete
On an seo point of view, you're plain wrong. The search engines treat each page "individually". Independant of the keywords in the url, the content of the page + "authority backlinks" are always given more weight, however, the recent algo on the major 3 search engines does seem to be giving a boost to sites with keywords in the url. This is definitely temporary as they tend to switch this factor "on and off" every 2 years or so.
There is a mod-rewrite for wordpress and there is a forum for wordpress too, on which i hope you don't have a double red rep LOL!!!
Which version of WP are you using? WP 1.5 makes is really easy, so if you are using an older version check into upgrading.