Search engine safe URLs

[cookie]

I'm sure all of you developers know what mod_rewrite is for apache and I'm sure all of you know what it can do.

With some entries to your .htaccess file you can use mod-rewrite to point incoming request to different pages. For example the following rewrite rule

RewriteRule ^forumdisplay_([0-9]+).html forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L]would point the following search engine safe urlhttp://www.your-domain.com/forumdisplay_1.htmlto this onehttp://www.your-domain.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1and load the first forum on your site.

It would be nice to see this feature added to vBadvanced. It is yet another step in making your software even more search engine friendly.

[Brian]

Sorry, won't be happening anytime soon. Not everybody uses the same SEO methods. If we tried to add something by default then it wouldn't work for everyone, and many people would be penalized for duplicate content.

[webguy76]

Losing ?'s would be a good start. Yeah, Google can work with them, but knows that because there's a ?, that it's a dynamic site. Therefore, may decide to list only x amount of pages before it comes back. Same with other search engines.

I've been looking for SEO/rewrite methods for use with the links directory without much luck so far. Other than user "Brian" replying to everyone that the dynamic URL's are not a problem (which I think they are).

I'll keep looking... Hopefully someone has posted something useful.