Witango-Talk: Mod Rewrite - (Maybe OT)

2003-11-12 Thread Fogelson, Steve
I was just talking to a Search Engine Key Phrase Placement Company I contract with. He threw a term at me that I am unfamiliar with Mod Rewrite. He further explained that this shortened the URL (removed the ?), maybe the session id. This strategy is supposed to gain better search engine

Re: Witango-Talk: Mod Rewrite - (Maybe OT)

2003-11-12 Thread Bill Conlon
mod_rewrite is an apache module. Similar to URL redirection, it is performed on the server and allows you to change the requested URL on the fly. I was just talking to a Search Engine Key Phrase Placement Company I contract with. He threw a term at me that I am unfamiliar with Mod Rewrite. He

Re: Witango-Talk: Mod Rewrite - (Maybe OT)

2003-11-12 Thread Garth Penglase
I looked into this a few years ago because of prior indexing problems with a news site, however webdude has it 100% correct. Pretty much all search engines support dynamic URLs now, since more and more sites are moving that way (so spider technology had to be reworked for the search sites to