URL rewriting (was RE: [thelist] your research on search engines and the sites you work on)

[Chris W. Parker]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: .jeff [mailto:jeff at members.evolt.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 1:46 PM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: RE: [thelist] your research on search engines and
> the sites you
> work on
>
>
> ben,
>
> ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><
> > From: Ben Dyer
> >
> > Thus far, I've had reasonable luck with the Spider Safe
> > URL ISAPI filter from CFDEV:
> >
> > <http://www.cfdev.com/products/productdetail.cfm/id/1023>
> ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><
>
> fwiw, i've posted numerous times on other discussion lists about the
> difference between pseudo-"search engine friendly" urls and
> true search
> engine friendly urls -- aka, directory-style query strings.
> here's a copy
> and paste from a comprehensive email to another list that
> happens to be
> talking about our very own site -- evolt.org:
>
> ><><><><><><><><><><><> begin copy <><><><><><><><><><><><
[snip /]
> ><><><><><><><><><><><> end copy <><><><><><><><><><><><><
>
> there's something for ya to chew on.
>
> btw, just as an aside, but making your site as search engine
> friendly as
> possible will have another benefit in that it'll suddenly
> have more human
> readable and memorable urls to content.

that was pretty informative. and makes a lot of sense too.

i think i ran into a problem with the ISAPI tool at cfdev that ben
mentioned with regards to the MS URLScan tool. i don't think it liked
the . in the URL. actually wait... maybe it was that frontpage didn't
like it. (one more reason to do away with frontpage here at work.)

.jeff i don't know if you work with IIS or not, but if so, do you have
any recommendations for other URL rewriting programs?

to anyone else, any tutorials on using the 404 page to rewrite the url
taking into account the proper response codes?


thanks,
chris.