seo-friendly

Framework to facilitate editable, dynamic, SEO friendly product pages on open source enterprise Java stack?

Let me outline the problem space. I want to create a SEO friendly page that contains dynamic information, but also has areas of information that are easily editable by HTML content editors (NOT programmers) outside of the normal development lifecycle (I'll call this content 'static' content). For example think of a product page that ha...

How can I display SEO friendly URLs using mod_rewrite?

Hi, I am not a PHP developer at heart and I have been asked to perform some SEO on an existing PHP website. The first thing I noticed was the ugly URLs so I want to get these to rewrite to something more informative. Here are all the possible patterns: /index.php?m=ModuleType&categoryID=id /index.php?m=ModuleType&categoryID=id&product...

What are the best practices when shifting old legacy web applications to new ones (specially about broken links problem)?

Suppose you have an old legacy website, with an in-house php CMS. http://mysite.com/index.php?page=3&c=7 Now, for some reason, you re-structured your website in Wordpress, with SEO friendly URL's, registered a Google Analytics account, and needs to update your system, so when http://mysite.com/ is set on the browser, now it poi...

Is ASP.Net 2.0/Ajax toolkit the right technology for implementing a SEO friendly website

Hi, As I understand it, just URL re-writing is not the only thing one needs to do for making a website SEO friendly. You also needs to maximize the use of div (instead of tables), reduce javascripts, flashes and have a clean HTML. I need to know how can this be achieved when one used a ASP.Net control. ASP.Net send loads of stuff to th...

What are the things to remember when one designs a website

Hi, We are planning to sell our own product in medical domain. Its a Patient management System. Before we start marketing we need to have website for the same. We already have done some basic things like booking a domain name for the website, purchasing the hosting service. Before we design the website, can somebody guide us what thin...

SEO friendly URL in Classic ASP?

I have website developed in classic ASP. The URL is not SEO friendly at present. Please suggest how I can make the SEO friendly URL for my website in ASP. Is there any supporting functions which can help in creating SEO friendly URL in ASP? URL for product Information page like this : http://www.yourdomain.com/store/template/template2...

Best practices for converting an existing website into a website with SEF URL

I've got a website that was created about an year ago and its been constantly revised since then. The website is coded in classic ASP, contains about ~50 pages -- some are multi-purpose, and contains old-school style links such as: /news.asp?PageIndex=4 /news.asp?SearchString=Obama /news.asp?SearchString=Obama&PageIndex=4 /news.asp?News...

(sharp) # sign in query string and SEO

Hi there, I have a site Index.html and there is a categories menu generated from database. Menu consists of HTML anchors, but href attribute is always something like "Index.html#cat=xyz" because content of each category is generated through AJAX call. <a href="Index.html#cat=1" onclick="javascript:LoadHref("cat","1");"></a><br /> <a hre...

mod_rewrite and hyperlinks

Hi Guys, I'm trying to get my head around mod_rewrite and friendly URLS. OK, on a very basic level I have the following rule: RewriteRule ^register$ register.php [L] This allows me to browse to www.mydomain.com/register The hyperlink within my pages shows register.php. Do I have to manually change my links to register? Esentiallly...

mod_rewite advice

Hi Guys, I was wondering if you could advise if there is a more efficient way of writing what I have below? Could this be acheived in the 1 rule? RewriteRule ^search/(cars|boats|plant)/([-a-zA-Z0-9]+)/type-([0-9]+)/price-([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)/?$ search.php?category=$1&location=$2&type=$3&minprice=$4&maxprice=$5 [L] RewriteRule ^search/(car...

MYSQL: Friendly URLs sql query

I want to make a query using which I can check that URL which I am making for a new video entry is not present in my db. My current query is: SELECT Count(videoid) FROM video WHERE titleurl = 'test'; I am storing count in a variable $n Then checking it using the following PHP code if ($n > 0){ return $output . "-$n"; }else{ return...

ÅÄÖ: what is considered more SEO friendly URL

As far as I can tell I shouldn't be using ÅÄÖ (somthing like they have no visual representation in ASCII??). So what is considered more SEO friendly? Replacing i.e. all "ä" with "a" or "ae"? (The CMS Umbraco replaces with ae and I'm leaning towards this). EDIT: Summary of how some Swedish sites does it: aftonbladet.se/ ä => a (http:...

Dynamic SEO-friendly URLs

I'd like to deploy dynamic URL's for my app in two ways: when viewing available vehicle, I get a link like: http://www.url.com/2006-Acura-MDX-Technology-Package I also have a filter page, so here, the URL will change according to the filters selected like: http://www.url.com/2007-Nissan or http://www.url.com/2007-Nissan-Maxima and so o...

Rails Friendly URLs

Hello, I have a model called Project and I've defined the "to_param" method as this: def to_param permalink end I am using this permalink plugin github.com/febuiles/make_permalink so when I call p.permalink it will generate id-name. The problem is that when I TYPE /projects/1 in my web-browser the URL doesn't change to /projects/1-...

SEO Urls with .htaccess

Hi; I create a .htaccess file with these lines: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteRule index/locale/(.*)/id/(.*)/ index.php?locale=$1&id=$2 RewriteRule index/locale/(.*)/id/(.*) index.php?locale=$1&id=$2 I expect that it works with this call: http://localhost/test/index.php/locale/tr/id/14 But it doesn't work. Please...

Url Rewriting, SEO and encoding

I found this article regarding Url Rewriting most useful. But here are a couple of questions. I would love to use a url (before rewriting, With spaces between the querry string) http://www.store.com/products.aspx?category=CD s-Dvd s First of all, should i replace the spaces with the plus sign for any reason? (+) http://www.store.co...

PHP: Parse different styles of friendly urls

Hello. I am writting my own small framework and I am going to implement friendly URLs there. mod_rewrite is great. But I want to be able to handle several types of friendly URLS at once: /index.php?ac=user&an=showprofile (fallback variant, the worst) /index.php/user/showprofile (supposedly, can be disabled by security settings) index.p...

ASP.net MVC support for URL's with hyphens

Is there an easy way to get the MvcRouteHandler to convert all hyphens in the action and controller sections of an incoming URL to underscores as hyphens are not supported in method or class names. This would be so that I could support such structures as sample.com/test-page/edit-details mapping to Action edit_details and Controller tes...

How to improve my Seo url generator

Hi i have this function which generates a seo friendly url from a string : function seo_titleinurl_generate($title) { $title=substr($title,0,160); $title = ereg_replace(" ", "-", $title); // replace spaces by "-" $title = ereg_replace("á", "a", $title); // replace special chars ...

How can I create (custom) friendly URL in Wordpress?

In Wordpress, I have set the permalink structure like this: /%category%/%postname% After creating a custom search page, I now have the following URL: http://mypage.com/search?foo1=bar&amp;foo2=&amp;foo3=&amp;foo4= I have two questions: 1) How can I transform this url so that I get to e.g. http://mypage.com/search/foo1/bar ? 2) Is the...