SEO friendly URLs

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by steveb, Jan 18, 2007.

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    Hi, can someone show me how to make my URLs search engine friendly. It's for this site: apexcreditcards.com

    Im not looking for links. Im looking for specific directions on how to do it.

    Thanks,
    Steve
     
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  2. Angelus

    Angelus Well-Known Member

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    Is there a cms behind it? Which one?

    p.l.u.r.
     
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  3. steveb

    steveb Well-Known Member

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    There's no cms behind it. It's a custom built.
     
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    With .htaccess file.. you should look if your Host has mod_rewrite enabled and make SEF urls yourself in a .htaccess file. Just look up .htaccess and friendly urls in google.

    If you have blog software, cms or something you should read their faq's. Most of the time they have a way to get SEF Urls.
     
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    You definitely want to use mod_rewrite. This isn't my site but these guys have some really kick butt info on how to do it very easily on your server.

    http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess2.php


     
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    Try creating mod_rewrite for your script. ;)
     
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    steveb Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for the link, boron. However, when I tried it, it didn't work for me. I even confirmed with my webhost that they are on Apache servers.

    This is the URL I tried rewriting: http://www.apexcreditcards.com/index.php?mod=products&act=view_top

    This is the code that came out which I inputted into the .htaccess file:

    Am I doing something wrong or missing something? Sorry, Im a complete newb when it comes to this kind of stuff.

    Steve
     
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    masroor Banned

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    Hm! your website ranking is Pr4
    If you wanna really SEO Friendly then submit it on directories and search engine and make Site map for your website it will helpfully.
     
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    He is asking about the structure of the link.

    Ok, back to topic, as far as i can see, you use the structure of the links pretty much OK, for the articles (the ones listed in the center column) i would rather use link structure like site.com/articles/title-of-article.html instead of article-title-of-article.html

    You are missing tho a very important thing on SEO, all your article pages have the same identical title tag and description tag, also, your articles miss of H1 and H2 tags too. Instead of using Article: The title of the article with a bigger font, use something like <h2>Title of the article</h2> and proceed down with the content.
     
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