[thelist] SEO and dynamic URL's

Joshua Olson joshua at waetech.com
Thu Jul 8 16:42:41 CDT 2004


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Dinowitz
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 1:45 PM
>
> Just finished polishing the article. Enjoy
> http://www.fusionauthority.com/Article1.cfm/ArticleID=4226

Michael,

Good job on the article.  I particularly like the questions section at the
end.  I'd like to point out that the technique described in the article is
not necessarily new and is not necessarily the best solution available.  The
overall point of the article is to describe how to convert:

http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/messages.cfm?threadid=33724&forumid=4

Into:

http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/messages.cfm/threadid=33724:forumid=4

While it does a good job of explaining how to do that, would the following
URL format even be "better"?

http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message/4/33724/

Using URL rewriting tools, this new URL structure could be used in place of
the original quite easily with only a single rule... aka 1 line of code,
literally.  The only trick is to then rewrite the parts of the site that
generate links to the new format--but you'd have to do this no matter what,
even with the technique described in the article.

Thoughts?

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Joshua Olson
Web Application Engineer
WAE Tech Inc.
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706.210.0168




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