ReWrite and other SEO help needed

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by naif, Feb 26, 2007.

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    Hi guys. I need some help for creating SE friendly URL's. Site in concern is http://www.dhonixpress.com

    I have few other search engine related questions too. As you can see, back then when I was SE illitrate, I used index.php?page to create all the pages on the site. I want to use search engine friendly url's. So this brings my first question. Do I use /page.htm, /page.html or just /page? .html seems have to more prelevance then .htm does. But still I am not sure what I should do. My second question now is related to .htaccess file for achieving proper 301 redirects. Lets assume I am going to use .htm for all pages.

    Most of the pages on my site are PR 3. They are being indexed as index.php?page. So I need to get two things done. First, I want the search engines to know that index.php?page has been permanently moved to /page.htm. And I want all /page.htm requests to be transparently directed to /index.php?page

    How do I do this use .htaccess?

    Now my SEO questions are related to headings. I want to know if I should use level 1 or level 2 headings for page titles? Like biography, achievements etc. I am not using any level 1 heading right now. So to be precise, this is what I want to know:

    Should I use a level 1 heading to identify the title of the site and use level 2 headings to identify the page.. Or should I skip the title of the site because its already there under <title></title> and instead make use of level 1 headings for the pages?
     
    naif, Feb 26, 2007 IP
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    SE friendly URL mainly just need to limit the variables to one or less, and should include keywords that are relevant to the page. The file extension doesn't really make a difference: .asp, .htm, .html, etc. are all the same.

    FYI, if you ask one question per thread and have more specific titles you will get more/better responses in the forums here.
     
    BILZ, Feb 26, 2007 IP
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    naif Well-Known Member

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    So index.php?biography is good?

    I'll do that in the future :)
     
    naif, Feb 26, 2007 IP
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    Thats better than index.php?id=42&4342234 or something like that. However, it isn't as good as biography.php
     
    BILZ, Feb 28, 2007 IP