Web friendly URLs

Here's a blog post I did on "Search Engine Friendly" links. Although this is
always a matter of debate, the vast amount of evidence on the web points to
the fact that your time is probably spent better elsewhere than on trying to
create SEO Links.

http://blog.cartweaver.com/index.cfm?newsid=6

Hope this is helpful.

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Lawrence *Adobe Community Expert*
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"matthisco" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:gk72o0$amv$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Could anyone advise on the best way to do this?
>
> I'd like my URL's to make more sense then they do at present. Currently I
> structure my sites to pull in cfinclude using a variable for each area,
> index.cfm?area=foo.
>
> It works fine but I'd like to browse to a folder instead, something like,
> www.mysite.com/foo/
>
> Is it best practice to sturcture it like this? ie better for google etc.
>
> Any advise much appreciated, thanks in advance.
>
>
>
>

If you want a CF only version of a SES URL then you can use this:

http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2005/8/2/Ask-a-Jedi-Working-with-SES-URLs-and-ColdFusion

However, you can't get rid of the file name in this version. Thus, you can only have something clean as:

http://www.hello.com/index.cfm/my/var

For a full stripped down URL, the best option is on the web server-side.

matthisco,

I am not sure if this can be achieved using coldfusion alone.

If you are using Linux you can use regex one of the .conf files or if using windows you can install third party ISAPIRewrite.

Just make sure the url variable is unique and use a regex similar to but if you can make sure that each url variable is unique, then you can use something along the lines of:

RewriteRule /([\w\-]+)\.html /\?area=$1

This should work for the SEO Friendly URLS using ISAPIRewrite option