using mod rewrite on thousands of pages - makes sense?

Discussion in 'Apache' started by idolw, Dec 5, 2005.

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    so i have a few thousands of product pages that are now dynamic urls with parameters.
    i was thinking of using mod rewrite to make them more SE friendly. as a visitor, I would personally prefer friendly URLs to dynamic ones.
    what about our favourite search engine? may such a big number of pages cause any problems to ranking?

    thanks
     
    idolw, Dec 5, 2005 IP
  2. drew7744

    drew7744 Peon

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    I have serveral sites with 1,000's of pages using mod-rewrite. I don't have any downside -- unless there's something I don't know about.....
     
    drew7744, Dec 5, 2005 IP
  3. ScottBannon

    ScottBannon Well-Known Member

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    I did this same thing for a site back in July, switched to friendly URL's -- didn't seem to have any negative impact at all, and the PR raised for deep level pages plus the # of indexed pages increased by about 12%.

    HTH and good luck
     
    ScottBannon, Dec 5, 2005 IP
  4. idolw

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    so the change shall not affect my ranking in the first phase.
    shall I make 301 from the dynamic to the new URLs too?
    thanks
     
    idolw, Dec 6, 2005 IP
  5. keral82

    keral82 Banned

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    Yeah it will be more benificial if you also change the 301 from dynamic to static URL.
     
    keral82, Dec 6, 2005 IP