No Problem... This is one of my favorite custom tags. And it's so simple. I wish Macromedia would include this as a setting in the admin. It would be nice if they gave a way to specify your own query string delimiters. This could be useful maybe...
There are lots of discussions on forums about converting the url for SEO. Most of the popular search engines can read and index the full string with all the (?,=,&,%,etc.) The main issue I run into is not so much with the main search engines is actually with their affiliated partners and those that feed off the Search Engines using their funky APIs. A lot of times these third party sites do not maintain the string for one reason or another, and many will limit the urls string length which is lovely as it keeps me busy with custom 404 pages. - Neal -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Armstrong Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 10:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Encoding URL Thanks! that helps a lot!! Mark On 9/24/03 8:39 AM, "Neal Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Edit - Of course it would help if I attached the file... Doh! > > Hi Kevin, > > Here is a custom tag I use a lot on my sites. It's simple to use and > does not require you to change anything but the way your links are > formatted. I'm not sure if I can send a file through the list so if it > does not make it then use the url below. > > http://www.fusium.com > > ...the file is called "sesConverter". > > > - Neal > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mark Armstrong > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 6:55 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Encoding URL > > Kevin, > > Yes, on webmasterworld.com there is a discussion on this issue. I > haven't > tried it, but I hear it works. I don't know the current status of this > work > around. > > As a general statement, we find in our SEO, that we can get the static > pages > indexed fairly easily and just leaving the dynamic pages as is... > > A lot of what the client wants is just to be positioned well, right? Not > that every page of 1000 page dynamic site is indexed. Granted, the value > of > having 1000 pages ranked is better than 10, but it seems that when the > "just > right" amount of keyword density and content is on a page, it gets > indexed > very well. > > When the client has less words and keyword frequency, the page rank is > weak. > Thus, I would focus on the top 5 pages that are the front end of the > site > and make sure those get a seed in indexing. > > I realize I didn�t answer your question directly, but you asked for > other > thoughts. ;) > > mark > > > > > On 9/23/03 2:54 PM, "Kevin Barber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> CF Gurus, >> >> I have a client who wants to make sure that his dynamic pages are > indexed by >> search engines. I remember seeing some time ago that you could search > and >> replace the "?" and "&" with "\" and convert back in a page to fool > the >> search engines into thinking it was not a dynamic page. >> >> Any one know if that custom tag still exists? Does it still work, or > have >> the engines gotten wise? >> >> This and any other thoughts appreciated. >> >> Kevin >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------- >> To post, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To unsubscribe: >> Send UNSUBSCRIBE to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To subscribe / unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org >> > > ----------------------------------------------- > To post, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe: > Send UNSUBSCRIBE to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To subscribe / unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org > > ----------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: Send UNSUBSCRIBE to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe / unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org ----------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: Send UNSUBSCRIBE to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe / unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org
