Something's fishy with my rewritten URL's

Discussion in 'SEO' started by promediacorp, Nov 3, 2006.

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    I have a real estate web site. As you can see, all the dynamic property listing URLs are rewritten w/ nice keywords and are user friendly.

    for example, particular property listing URL is rewritten as such:

    http://www.markdavidny.com/Upper-West-Side/Co-op/210203

    The engines are indexing the nice and clean URLs.

    The problem is - visiting http://www.markdavidny.com/Upper-West-Side/ returns a page not found. What should be found are listings on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

    Thanks for your help!
     
    promediacorp, Nov 3, 2006 IP
  2. baumann93

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    That is because you are missing two parameters in that URL. WHat you need to do is to include a number of if statements that will check if all the parameters are present and if some of them are missing, then default values should be assigned.

    Hope that helps.
     
    baumann93, Nov 5, 2006 IP
  3. sarathy

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    That problem happens only with yahoo.,
    Use mod rewrite to automatically add backslash to the urls.,

    It happened to our site:
    For example
    clickjobs.com/india-jobs/examplecompany/1
    Note the backslash getting added automatically
     
    sarathy, Nov 5, 2006 IP