RE: [PHP] Hinding URL{ot}[Scanned]
John,
I agree with you but when I first looked at this I too thought there was some way of
doing this in php which might look more elegant. Seeing urls such as
www.mydomain.com/index.php?article_id=2id=e5t28er647ryh362hy67eh4563yh4635 looks
fairly cumbersome and I'm sure I've seen something about problems with some of the
search engines where session id's are included in urls.
On seeing that the only way of doing this was to use frames I decided that the costs
of doing this probably outweighed what is in effect a purely cosmetic issue.
Regards,
Michael Egan
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From: John W. Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 31 March 2004 14:59
To: Will; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Hinding URL{ot}[Scanned]
From: Will [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks everyone! :) I was not sure what it was called.
Thanks again,
~WILL~
PS: Sorry I thought you could do something in PHP.
Don't think for a second that you're actually hiding anything
here. The only
people you'll fool are newbies browsing the web. While
there are a lot of
them, those are probably not the people you're looking to
hide information
from.
---John Holmes...
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RE: [PHP] Hinding URL{ot}[Scanned]
snip I agree with you but when I first looked at this I too thought there was some way of doing this in php which might look more elegant. Seeing urls such as www.mydomain.com/index.php?article_id=2id=e5t28er647ryh362hy67eh4563yh4635 looks fairly cumbersome and I'm sure I've seen something about problems with some of the search engines where session id's are included in urls. /snip If you use apache you could try these links http://www.alistapart.com/articles/urls/ http://www.alistapart.com/articles/succeed/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Hinding URL{ot}[Scanned]
On seeing that the only way of doing this was to use frames I decided that the costs of doing this probably outweighed what is in effect a purely cosmetic issue. Never ever underestimate the cosmetic factor when you are talking about Usability and search engines. For example, if you are developing an ecommerce site - you have to think about your users/customers. In my testing and research, I have found that a large percentage of users will not bookmark URLS that look like: http://www.domain.com?id=1232subcat=32prodId=165412 They will, however, be more apt to bookmark URLS that look like: http://www.domain.com/shirts/white/flanel_button_down/ Why are users more apt to bookmark the latter? They make sense to the user. If you want people to come back to your site, bookmark your pages, and forward pages along to their friends... you gotta think like they do. You have to use URLs that make sense to THEM - not you. Search engine marketing is another factor to usable URLs. Just my thoughts. Aaron -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Hinding URL{ot}[Scanned]
From: Michael Egan [EMAIL PROTECTED] I agree with you but when I first looked at this I too thought there was some way of doing this in php which might look more elegant. Seeing urls such as www.mydomain.com/index.php?article_id=2id=e5t28er647ryh362hy67eh4563yh4635 looks fairly cumbersome and I'm sure I've seen something about problems with some of the search engines where session id's are included in urls. Do a search for search engine friendly URLs or somethig along those lines to see how to fix this. Using frames is not a very elegant solution. I'm not sure how/if search engines will index your pages if you have frames. ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Hinding URL{ot}[Scanned]
Matt,
Many thanks for these excellent links - I think I might have reached a different
conclusion if I'd come across these at the outset.
Cheers,
Michael Egan
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From: Matt Matijevich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 31 March 2004 15:11
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PHP] Hinding URL{ot}[Scanned]
snip
I agree with you but when I first looked at this I too thought there
was some way of doing this in php which might look more
elegant. Seeing
urls such as
www.mydomain.com/index.php?article_id=2id=e5t28er647ryh362hy6
7eh4563yh4635
looks fairly cumbersome and I'm sure I've seen something
about problems
with some of the search engines where session id's are included in
urls.
/snip
If you use apache you could try these links
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/urls/
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/succeed/
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RE: [PHP] Hinding URL{ot}[Scanned]
-Original Message- From: John W. Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Do a search for search engine friendly URLs or somethig along those lines to see how to fix this. Using frames is not a very elegant solution. I'm not sure how/if search engines will index your pages if you have frames. They will, however, careful planning and proper coding must be taken into account to ensure when a page is indexed in Google - for example - that it's not a loner' page or that when the user clicks the link found it will not be void of the design teamplte. Not impossible, but more work in the short-term. HTH Aaron -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
