Re: Are search engine safe URLs really necessary?

2005-04-26 Thread Ian Buzer
Google does treat SES URLs slightly differently in that it will spider pages at a significantly slower rate if it thinks the pages are dynamic. It is designed that way so that it doesn't bring the site down by over enthusiastic spidering. I redeveloped an existing application into fusebox, so

Re: Are search engine safe URLs really necessary?

2005-04-26 Thread Bert Dawson
: 25 April 2005 13:34 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Are search engine safe URLs really necessary? I use a custom 404 handler that does a database lookup from a table of vanity URLs. It evaluates the last value of a list separated by / and searches the database for the url... Simple enough

RE: Are search engine safe URLs really necessary?

2005-04-25 Thread Kerry
Yeah, I think search engines are happier about querystrings now, but: We have customers who put their URLs in printed marketing materials, so there is no way we are going to have users typing in: /index.cfm?page=79797C25-1143-5A57-54B333CF7325EA9C We need to have direct access like

RE: Are search engine safe URLs really necessary?

2005-04-25 Thread Jeff Garza
, April 25, 2005 6:18 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Are search engine safe URLs really necessary? Yeah, I think search engines are happier about querystrings now, but: We have customers who put their URLs in printed marketing materials, so there is no way we are going to have users typing in: /index.cfm

RE: Are search engine safe URLs really necessary?

2005-04-25 Thread kola.oyedeji
Subject: RE: Are search engine safe URLs really necessary? I use a custom 404 handler that does a database lookup from a table of vanity URLs. It evaluates the last value of a list separated by / and searches the database for the url... Simple enough for me. HTH, Jeff -Original

Re: Are search engine safe URLs really necessary?

2005-04-25 Thread Kay Smoljak
On 4/25/05, Jeff Garza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use a custom 404 handler that does a database lookup from a table of vanity URLs. It evaluates the last value of a list separated by / and searches the database for the url... You realise that when a search engine hits a 404 it turns around

RE: Are search engine safe URLs really necessary?

2005-04-25 Thread James Smith
Couldn't you combine it with a cfheader statuscode=200 or something though? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 April 2005 14:44 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Are search engine safe URLs really necessary? Jeff, While that works, doesn't

RE: Are search engine safe URLs really necessary?

2005-04-25 Thread kola.oyedeji
My point exactly ;-) ~k -Original Message- From: Kay Smoljak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 April 2005 13:44 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Are search engine safe URLs really necessary? On 4/25/05, Jeff Garza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use a custom 404 handler that does

Re: Are search engine safe URLs really necessary?

2005-04-25 Thread Keith Gaughan
Al Everett wrote: For those of you taking a lot of time getting your dynamic site URLs to look like static ones, this article may be of interest to you: http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/4/emw232456.htm (I am in no way affiliated with the site. It just happened to come up in a

RE: Are search engine safe URLs really necessary?

2005-04-25 Thread sean farrow
I use a similar setup to Jeff purely for search engine optimisation. You can set the HTTP status code to 200 and googlebot does index. Another point is that while google may index sites with complex URL's this in itself does not constitute search engine optimisation but rather is just a

Re: Are search engine safe URLs really necessary?

2005-04-25 Thread Jeff Garza
Message - From: Kay Smoljak [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 6:44 AM Subject: Re: Are search engine safe URLs really necessary? On 4/25/05, Jeff Garza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use a custom 404 handler that does a database lookup from

RE: Are search engine safe URLs really necessary?

2005-04-25 Thread Phillip B. Holmes
This is an excellent product for SEF URLS: http://helicontech.com/linkfreeze/ Best part about it is that you do not have to modify your existing url key pair schema. Just my 2 cents. Phil --- [This E-mail has been scanned for viruses.]