Suggestion: DMOZ-style search engine-friendly urls

[crankshaft]

I'd like to suggest an option for search engine-friendly, DMOZ-style urls for vBAdvanced browselinks.php pages.

On DMOZ.org, the main pages for each category mimic the directory structure. For example, the "Psycholinguistics" category is a sub-category of the "Linguistics" category, which is a sub-category of the "Social Sciences" category, which is a sub-category of the "Science" category. Thus, the url is:

Dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Psycholinguistics/

Static urls like this are more easily crawled by search engines, and often rank higher, as page-relevant keywords appear in the url.

I've put together something like this for my vBAdvanced links directory, by pulling category names from the datastore table. But it's somewhat sloppy, and I'd love to see this feature incorporated by default into vBAdvanced.

[crankshaft]

Can I get a standard reply so that I know this was looked at by an admin or mod? I think this is a well thought-out and reasonable suggestion.

[Brian]

Chances are that there will be some type of "spider friendly" URL's in a future version, but probably will not be done the way you have.

[crankshaft]

Thanks Brian -- good to hear. I'm currently doing this by pulling category names from the datastore table, and placing them in the url. I'm sure there's a cleaner way to handle it.