What do you think about optimization of asp pages? I think the first thing that has to be done is rewriting the urls to make them search engine friendly? What else?
pages must be seo friendly so you have to re- write pages if you are doing dynamic site optimization.
Your scripting language doesnt make much difference. Rewriting URLs is about the only thing you can do... Although it seems there is less and less relevance on this now. The most beneficial aspect of that is people are more inclined to link to you if the URL is nice and pretty
Rewriting URL is the hardest on asp pages if it contains query string. Another issue comes up validating html. There are parts of code generated which probably required for running the asp page, but comes as invalid when you try to validate html.
This article on url rewriting for asp and asp.net explains how to do exactly that. I didn't think so but it turns out there are lots of options in ASP for IIS servers. But more to the point, the web spiders don't know or care that you used ASP, PHP, CGI, FrontPage or Notepad to generate the html they read. All they care about is the content inside that markup. Ergo the same rules apply no matter how your pages are generated. And no, there's no reason that I'm aware of to think that the extension of a page ( .html, .htm, .asp, .wtf ) has any bearing on SERP rank by itself. I see PDFs in the results, so ASP which is really just html is no problem.
Much? Try none. Search engines don't care what server-side language you use, whether it's ASP, .NET, PHP, Python, Ruby, or my dog Larry (for the record, I do not, have not, nor will ever own a dog named Larry). All they care about is the content, not how its delivered. You are right though about the rewriting of the URLs being about the only thing you can do with server-side languages as far as SEO goes. But that should be done to make the links easier to remember for your visitors (which the search engines indirectly pick up, especially if keywords are used in the URLs) in the first place. After you choose which language to use, just make sure that you make the site easy to use and friendly to search engines as well as... well, everyone else.
And for the love of all that's holy don't put session IDs in the query string. Sorry, I've seen that happen way too many times.
That's nothing, ssandecki. About ten years ago I had a raccoon named Bandit as a pet. Aurora cops may be jerks, but even they couldn't bring themselves to do anything about me having him. But that's another topic for another thread.
Let ask you guys a question about Url Rewriting. I have pages with urls like this http://www.webcosmo.com/listing/Details.aspx?countryId=1&gId=2&dId=48&postId=17255 As you can see 4 query strings. I have more then 100 subcategories under the main category. What would be the best approach of Url rewriting?