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News search engine frendly

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:51 pm
by 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

Re: News search engine frendly

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:47 pm
by 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.

Re: News search engine frendly

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:39 pm
by 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

Re: News search engine frendly

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:18 am
by akronim
tsw wrote: 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?

Re: News search engine frendly

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:20 am
by tsw
Might have, everyone wants something so its hard to keep up with all FRs ;)

Re: News search engine frendly

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:21 am
by Piratos
index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=2&cntnt01returnid=15
google and yahoo have no problems with such url

Re: News search engine frendly

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:27 am
by akronim
Piratos wrote:
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!  ;) ;)

Re: News search engine frendly

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:38 am
by 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.

Re: News search engine frendly

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:47 am
by Dr.CSS
That's what I keep trying to tell people.  ;)