News search engine frendly

[akronim]

hi there
i'm currently working on version 0.13
and i need to know if there some hahk to make news URL more search engine friends

to say, having yout URL like

index.php?news=this-is-my-well-formatted_url

and not like

index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=2&cntnt01returnid=15

ceers

[Dr.CSS]

I've googled words from my site and it found ugly url news items with the word in it, when I clicked on the link in google it took me to the page with the news item that is in the side open in the content like someone clicked the more link, which to me means that the google boot followed all the links on that page and opened the news item and indexed it.

[tsw]

mark: its not just google why people want prettier urls

akronim: could you add a feature request for this so we dont forget thisone, thanks

[akronim]

mark: its not just google why people want prettier urls

akronim: could you add a feature request for this so we dont forget thisone, thanks

sure!

nobody asked for this before?

[tsw]

Might have, everyone wants something so its hard to keep up with all FRs

[Piratos]

index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=2&cntnt01returnid=15

google and yahoo have no problems with such url

[akronim]

google and yahoo have no problems with such url

dont'mean they have problems

but if you page have:  "This is the tile of what you're looking for"
both in the URL and in the title of your news (end of course in the meta title of the page) it's much better indexed by the search engine! 

http://www.yoursite.com/news/this_is_th ... ng_for.htm

[Piratos]

t's much better indexed by the search engine!

No - i have statements from google and yahoo - there is no difference between clean url and those php urls.

[Dr.CSS]

That's what I keep trying to tell people.