I have a community site which has around 10,000 listings at the moment. I am adopting a new url strategy something like example.com/products/category/some-product-name As part of strategy, I am implementing a site map. Google already has a good index of my site, but the URLs will change. I use a php framework which accesses the DB for...
I'm setting up a site where users have their own "profile". I'm using routes for neat URLs and I wondered what are the pros/cons to the following: example.com/:username Or should I include a static route to filter that it's a profile page request? example.com/u/:username example.com/something-static/:username Which is best? ...
I have an application where it was requested that a friendly url be made for a dynamic page that uses a lot of query string values. After some research on the Internet, I found that I needed to create either an HttpModule or HttpHandler to do the routing and then setup a wildcard mapping to the .Net v1.1 of aspnet_isapi.dll in IIS (remo...
I using urlrewriter.net to implement friendly urls. When I did the rewriting I used subfolders on occasions. I found myself having problems with images and links and the ~ sign wasn't working for me. After reading a bit I found out that I'm not the only one with that problem and they recommended using full path "www.website.com/images/x...
I'm using urlrewiter.net in order to implement friendly url's. It's a great and easy to use package! Nevertheless, while using subfolders I had problems with the relative links to images and to other inner pages. I tried to use ~ (server side) and it didn't do the trick. Is there another solution? ...
For example, here on stack overflow the URL http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/javascript+php will give you all questions tagged with javascript and php. The system I have allows tags with spaces in them, so the approach used here would not be a good fit for me. What character would you use to separate the tags, so the URLs are ...
I'm looking for the best URL schema to use for a web app that has multiple versions, namely several languages and a simplified version for use by mobile phones - both aspects can be combined, so there's an English regular and mobile version, a German regular and mobile version, etc. Goals (in order of importance): User-friendliness Se...
Is there any way to implement a URL mechanisim in asp.net like it has in asp.net mvc e.g. mydomain.com/user/myusername but without using the MVC if so, how? ...
I have a doubt about orkut's new URL Writing method. Earlier the home page was like http://www.orkut.com/Home.aspx Now its changed to http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Home.aspx Whats the significance of "#" ? Why is it there and why have they used it? Is not "#" used to navigate to a particular section of Page using name="blah" in the ...
How does URL rewriting affect the $_GET parameter for PHP? Say, for instance, I have a URL like http://example.com/index.php?p=contact and I use $_GET['p'] to tell index.php to serve the contact page. If I use a rewrite rule that converts the URL to http://example.com/contact, will $_GET['p'] still work as expected? If it does, could you...
Most websites use - (like stackoverflow) but most PHP framework generate + encoded url. So, what is the best for SEO ? Use + or - as separators ? ...
SEO-friendly URLs are all the rage these days. But do they actually have a meaningful impact on a page's ranking in Google and other search engines? If so, why? If not, why not? (Note that I would absolutely agree that SEO-friendly URLs are nicer to use for human beings. My question is whether they actually make a difference to the rank...
First of all, please excuse my ignorance on this...I'm totally willing to accept that my opinion on this is wrong. In fact, I suspect that it is given the sheer number of web developers that seem to disagree. :) I've read a great deal of discussion recently (both on this site and elsewhere) about "friendly URLs" but I'm not sure what ...
I'm trying to add URL routing to a web application running in Tomcat 5.5. I want to make the dynamic page URLs more friendly, changing main.jsp?type=test&group=info to main/test/info as is all the rage. I have set up the following in the web.xml <servlet> <servlet-name>main</servlet-name> <jsp-file>/main.jsp</jsp-file> </s...
In the context of this question link text is possible from a Controller that responds to a Form Post to go to the Friendly Url? ...
I'm working on a site which the client has had translated into Croatian and Slovenian. In keeping with our existing URL patterns we have generated URL re-writing rules that mimic the layout of the application which has lead to having many non-ascii charachters in the URLs. Examples š ž č Some links are triggered from Flash using getURL...
Why some sites, most blogs, use title of the post in the url? As in: http://www.geek.com.br/blogs/832697632/posts/9360-uni-o-europ-ia-pretende-apoiar-conex-o-universal-para-celulares Will this improve google indexing? EDIT: this is a duplicate of Why do some websites add “Slugs” to the end of URLs? ...
Most part of the world uses non-ASCII characters. But some idioms use things like é, ö, á, ã, õ etc, which can be "converted" to ascii. Suppose the title of the post is: Configuração é fácil! How to represent that in a URL? www.myblog.com/post/1200/Configura__o-_-f_cil A much better representantion is www.myblog.com/post/1200/Confi...
What are the pros and cons of using your databases primary key as a URL identifier? As an example, http://localhost/post/view/13 - 13 being my primary key for my posts table. Some sites like reddit use what I assume is a unique id that is not the primary key but still unique to help identify the link: http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/com...
Hello, I have Joomla 1.5.9 running with php 5.2.8, mySQL 5.1.31 on IIS7 on a vista 64 dev box. I have both SEO Settings "Search Engine Friendly URLs" and "Use Apache mod_rewrite" working correctly. I'm also setting up a hosted site (with www.mochahosting.com). They use slightly older versions of the same software: Joomla 1.5.5, php 5.2...