Re: Are "search engine safe" URLs really necessary?

2005-04-26 Thread Bert Dawson
-Original Message- > > From: Jeff Garza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 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

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 ev

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.] ~~~

Re: Are "search engine safe" URLs really necessary?

2005-04-25 Thread Jeff Garza
ginal Message - From: "Kay Smoljak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" 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

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 compone

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

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

RE: Are "search engine safe" URLs really necessary?

2005-04-25 Thread James Smith
Couldn't you combine it with a 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, &g

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 aro

RE: Are "search engine safe" URLs really necessary?

2005-04-25 Thread kola.oyedeji
> 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 u

RE: Are "search engine safe" URLs really necessary?

2005-04-25 Thread Jeff Garza
nt: Monday, 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

RE: Are "search engine safe" URLs really necessary?

2005-04-25 Thread Kerry
Subject: Are "search engine safe" URLs really necessary? 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 th

Are "search engine safe" URLs really necessary?

2005-04-25 Thread Al Everett
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 Google Alert and covers a topic

Re: search engine safe URLs

2004-09-17 Thread Nathan Wells
>Just finished my article. Enjoy >http://www.fusionauthority.com/Article1.cfm/ArticleID=4226 Great article Michael.  I tried to implement the code you posted, and found one thing people should be aware of. The use of a colon in a URL may not be allowed if you're using Microsoft IIS.  It seems that

Re: search engine safe URLs

2004-07-08 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Just finished my article. Enjoy http://www.fusionauthority.com/Article1.cfm/ArticleID=4226 [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]

RE: search engine safe URLs

2004-07-07 Thread Raymond Camden
> > > http://www.mysite.com/index.cfm?page=productSummary&catID=12 > > > > however, most search engines will only index the index.cfm > page sine > > the remainder of the url is "dynamic". > > This seems to be a commonly voiced fear but searching on > various search engines simply doesn't see

RE: search engine safe URLs

2004-07-06 Thread dave
thats why u stick your dynamic content in your meta tags been that way 4 yrs now [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]

RE: search engine safe URLs

2004-07-06 Thread Stephen Milligan
o you cfeclipse? http://cfeclipse.tigris.org >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Dinowitz >Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 9:44 PM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: Re: search engine safe URLs > >I have. When I redid the HoF

Re: search engine safe URLs

2004-07-06 Thread Michael Dinowitz
; Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 22:36:24 -0700 Subject: Re: search engine safe URLs To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It doesnt take much searching on google or yahoo to see that dynamic pages DO get indexed. I read somewhere recently that its not an issue of dynamic pages being indexed, however, the i

Re: search engine safe URLs

2004-07-06 Thread simeon
It doesnt take much searching on google or yahoo to see that dynamic pages DO get indexed. I read somewhere recently that its not an issue of dynamic pages being indexed, however, the issue is that the search engines will not spider pages from a dynamic url. This is not something that i have been

Re: search engine safe URLs

2004-07-06 Thread Sean Corfield
> http://www.mysite.com/index.cfm?page=productSummary&catID=12 > > however, most search engines will only index the index.cfm page sine the > remainder of the url is "dynamic". This seems to be a commonly voiced fear but searching on various search engines simply doesn't seem to back this up and

Re: search engine safe URLs

2004-07-06 Thread Robert Munn
>however, most search engines will only index the index.cfm page sine the >remainder of the url is "dynamic". I wonder how much that is still true. Admittedly, I do mostly intranet-based work, but I recently built a site for my wife's real estate business and had no problems with URLs for a Fusebo

search engine safe URLs

2004-07-06 Thread Chris Alvarado
Hello all, I have an app that calls pages dynamically via switching statements and url variables similar to early fusebox applications. Something like: http://www.mysite.com/index.cfm?page=productSummary&catID=12 however, most search engines will only index the index.cfm page sine the remainder

Re: search engine safe urls question

2003-10-03 Thread Stephen Moretti
www.ukcfug.org Spike does good stuff. Stephen Ketan Patel wrote: > Has anybody tried this FriendlyURL Servlet. > http://www.spike.org.uk/go/friendly-urls > If yes please email me some sites whicha re using that. > > Ketan Patel > G3 Technology Group, LLC > http://www.instantposition.com > [T

search engine safe urls question

2003-10-03 Thread Ketan Patel
Has anybody tried this FriendlyURL Servlet. http://www.spike.org.uk/go/friendly-urls If yes please email me some sites whicha re using that. Ketan Patel G3 Technology Group, LLC http://www.instantposition.com [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settin

Re:RE: Search engine safe urls

2003-08-04 Thread jlangevin
by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. --Robert Louis Stevenson Reply Separator Subject:RE: Search engine safe urls Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 8/3/2003 10:50 PM > I've looked high and low and I can't find an answer

RE: Search engine safe urls

2003-08-03 Thread Dave Watts
> I've looked high and low and I can't find an answer that > works so I'm going to ask here. In the release notes for > the updater it says as one of the features fixed: > Search engine safe URLs of the form *.cfm/* did not work > properly, so a URL such as ht

RE: Search engine safe urls

2003-07-28 Thread Mark Johnson
://somedomain.com/test.html/name/value Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 3:43 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Search engine safe urls Did you do something to IIS or to CFMX? Are you on a single site machine or multi-homed? I&#

Re: Search engine safe urls

2003-07-28 Thread Michael Dinowitz
-Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 3:08 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Search engine safe urls > > > I think your missing the point and origin of SES urls. Basically, it goes > back > to 96 or 97 and has to

RE: Search engine safe urls

2003-07-28 Thread Mark Johnson
2003 3:08 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Search engine safe urls I think your missing the point and origin of SES urls. Basically, it goes back to 96 or 97 and has to do with a small 'feature' where anything AFTER the file name would be pumped into the CGI.path_info. It didn't matter i

Re: Search engine safe urls

2003-07-28 Thread Michael Dinowitz
PROTECTED] > WWW: http://www.evoch.com/ > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 4:55 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Re: Search engine safe urls > > > > > > Nope. A

RE: Search engine safe urls

2003-07-28 Thread Mosh Teitelbaum
Tel: (301) 942-5378 Fax: (301) 933-3651 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.evoch.com/ > -Original Message- > From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 4:55 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Search engine safe urls > >

Re: Search engine safe urls

2003-07-28 Thread Michael Dinowitz
> So does this code work for you? I'm running on the internal web server, but as I said its throwing the identical error you reported. Nope. I've used my original code as well as new tests and the core problem is that the url is not being recognized as containing a valid template by CFMX. It neve

RE: Search engine safe urls

2003-07-28 Thread Barney Boisvert
entral.com > -Original Message- > From: Matt Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 2:31 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Search engine safe urls > > > I have something that works here for me in CFMX with "the latest > updater"

Re: Search engine safe urls

2003-07-28 Thread Matt Robertson
I have something that works here for me in CFMX with "the latest updater". Its a modification of Ben Forta's cf_FakeURL, which threw a 500 when I just tried it a second ago. So did Pablo Varando's code. The problem is cgi.path_info is coming back as the same value as what I'd expect to see fr

Re: Search engine safe urls

2003-07-28 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Nope. A 500: http://lotauctions.com/index.cfm/name=a The server encountered an error and was unable to complete your request. Message: ISAPI DLL D:\CFusionMX\runtime\lib\wsconfig\2\jrun.isa returned error status for this request. Basically, the url is being passed to the CF engine and it has no c

Re: Search engine safe urls

2003-07-28 Thread Michael Dinowitz
ECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 3:41 PM > Subject: RE: Search engine safe urls > > > > The two main things I have heard about this are: > > > > 1. Make sure to have a base tag in you head > > > > 2.

Re: Search engine safe urls

2003-07-28 Thread Pablo Varando
Michael, check this tutorial out: http://tutorial90.easycfm.com/ Pablo - Original Message - From: "Heald, Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 3:41 PM Subject: RE: Search engine safe urls > The two

Re: Search engine safe urls

2003-07-28 Thread Johan Steenkamp
: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 8:27 AM Subject: Search engine safe urls > I've looked high and low and I can't find an answer that works so I'm going to > ask here. In the release notes for the updater it says as one of the features > fixed: > Search engine safe URLs of the

RE: Search engine safe urls

2003-07-28 Thread Heald, Tim
-Talk Subject: Search engine safe urls I've looked high and low and I can't find an answer that works so I'm going to ask here. In the release notes for the updater it says as one of the features fixed: Search engine safe URLs of the form *.cfm/* did not work properly, so a URL such

Re: Search engine safe urls

2003-07-28 Thread Matt Robertson
Michael, Just a shot in the dark: is your web server software intercepting the urls and pumping out 404's before CF can get hold of them? -- --- Matt Robertson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com -

Search engine safe urls

2003-07-28 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I've looked high and low and I can't find an answer that works so I'm going to ask here. In the release notes for the updater it says as one of the features fixed: Search engine safe URLs of the form *.cfm/* did not work properly, so a URL such as http:/server/test.cfm/alpha/beta wo

RE: Search engine safe urls in CFMX

2003-06-30 Thread Taco Fleur
Interesting.. -Original Message- From: Hugo Ahlenius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 30 June 2003 9:20 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Search engine safe urls in CFMX Taco, Your documentation/header seems invalid, if it is supposed to be XML: you forgot to close the createDate tag

RE: Search engine safe urls in CFMX

2003-06-30 Thread Taco Fleur
:15 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Search engine safe urls in CFMX You could form al your links like index.cfm/var=foo And use the custom tag I wrote, remove the cf_error tag

RE: Search engine safe urls in CFMX

2003-06-30 Thread Hugo Ahlenius
Message- | From: Taco Fleur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 13:15 | To: CF-Talk | Subject: RE: Search engine safe urls in CFMX | | | You could form al your links like index.cfm/var=foo | | And use the custom tag I wrote, remove the cf_error tag

RE: Search engine safe urls in CFMX

2003-06-30 Thread Taco Fleur
-Original Message- From: Jerry Staple [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 30 June 2003 8:20 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: FW: Search engine safe urls in CFMX Hi Can anyone tell me how you turn urls into search

FW: Search engine safe urls in CFMX

2003-06-30 Thread Jerry Staple
Hi Can anyone tell me how you turn urls into search engine safe urls in Coldfusion Mx i.e TURN index.cfm?user=Joe Bloggs&bgcolor=blue&county=2 INTO index.cfm/user=Joe Bloggs/bgcolor=blue/county=2 etc etc Thanks in Advance Jerry Staple Web Application Developer C

RE: Search Engine Safe URLs

2000-03-31 Thread Craig M. Rosenblum
make sure anything that might have special characters or spaces uses URLEncodedFormat() > -Original Message- > From: Eron Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 9:56 AM > To: Cf-Talk > Subject: Search Engine Safe URLs > > > Sorry tha

Search Engine Safe URLs

2000-03-31 Thread Eron Cohen
Sorry that this may be a repeated question, but I still haven't figured out how to properly accomplish Search Engine Safe URLs with fusebox. Can anyone give me a brief rundown on how to do this, or tell me where to find the resources on how to do this. Right now, my URLs are all