A URL rewrite engine is software that modifies a web URL's appearance (URL rewriting). Rewritten URLs (sometimes known as short, fancy URLs, or search engine friendly - SEF) are used to provide shorter and more relevant-looking links to web pages. The technique adds a degree of separation between ...
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Force google to just index rewrited urls
Let's think we have a website with a URL like http://www.domain.com/webdesign/
that rewrites http://www.domain.com/?article=1.
now when i search my keyword in Google, it will show up ...
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When is it worth it to make my URLs “pretty”?
We are in 2011, search engines are now using hundreds or thousands of parameters to weight a page. The URL is only one of them, is it still so much of an impact in the search results? People are ...
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URL re-write for indexed pages [duplicate]
I have a blog with around 40 posts, and i want to change the URL structure these posts. this is my old URL something like:
http://domain.com/blog/2013/02/04/string-here.html
i want to set the URL ...
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apache rewriting url doesn't work(using godaddy hosting)
I'm using a framework to create my website(codeigniter) by default the urls are like this:mysite.com/index.php?/etc/etc/etc.
And I'm trying to remove the index.php?, I tried to remove it by doing ...
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In IIS what is the difference between rewrite rules managed by URL Rewrite Module versus those only in web.config?
In IIS what is the difference between rewrite rules managed by URL Rewrite Module versus those which are only in the web.config file and do not appear in the URL Rewrite Module?
Using the URL Rewrite ...
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Which URL format is better? domain.com/[id]/title OR domain.com/title/[id].html [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
SEO : urls : best place for the id
My site uses URL rewriting in both formats (for different things), but I'm wondering which one is the better approach?
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do we have to add/remove a trailing slash for pagination page numbers in the url. how seo considers that?
My module is paginated. I want to either add a trailing slash or remove a trailing slash.
For now i am thinking of adding a trailing slashes to all URLS.
What will be the effect on adding a trailing ...
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How do I use htaccess to make a short URL to a MediaWiki page?
I'd like to rewrite /liam to /index.php/Liam_Edwards-Playne. I've currently written this below in the appropriate .htaccess file but it is still returning a 404:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/liam$ ...
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Google on capital letters in url
I created one of my websites with the following url structure:
http://domain.com/Animal/Pig
http://domain.com/Pigs
If I change the url map to lower case letters instead, will google reindex those ...
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Htaccess - Rewrite png to php file
I currently use trans.png.php?id=1&campaign=test to track my newsletter campaigns.
I want to use trans.png instead as it's the src of an img tag.
How can i do this in htaccess? Also is there any ...
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How does Google handle “clean” URLs is the URL is always changing due to edits?
So, since some "clean" URL system pull the wording directly from content I was wondering how Google handles this?
Here's an example of content changes changing the URLs:
Version 1 of the Title:
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Debating between different kinds of URL and see if one is more seo-friendly than other…
So something like domain.com\x\y\z\t and domain.com\x?var1=y&var2=z&var3=t (var1, var2 and var3 will be replaced by legit words that make more sense).
Which one is more SEO friendly? For my ...
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Removing the script extension with URL rewriting on Apache
Given a (slightly theoretical) physical disk layout of:
\products\cameras\50d.jpg
\products\cameras\20d.jpg
\products\lenses\18-55.jpg
\products\lenses\28-135.jpg
\products.php
At the moment, I've ...
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What's the quickest/cheapest way to get URL rewriting implemented?
Related to another question - if you need to get URL rewriting implemented ASAP, what are some methods that you've used or know of that can speed this up?
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DNS name/host-header specific url-pattern/security-constraint, to not require SSL with Tomcat6
I am needing to enable SSL on an application hosted through Tomcat6 and I have added the following to the tomcat web.xml:
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
...
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nginx proxy rewrite not matching
I'm setting Nginx to forward requests to several backend services using proxy_pass
A few of them I have to add rewrite rules to strip the folder off, however for this particular service, the rewrite ...
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Tool to generate list of redirections (sitemap for .htaccess)
Is there any good tool (preferably for Ubuntu), that can help me generate a list of URLs used on a site?
I'm building new version of some site, but I don't want to get 404 errors for the old pages. ...
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Displaying “index.php” in URL
Is there a best practice/convention to have www.example.com as opposed to www.example.com/index.php in a site's URL? I made the links to the homepage relative (i.e. href="index.php") as opposed to ...
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Joomla 1.6 URL rewrite on IIS7 (removing /index.php/)
Joomla 1.6 was released today and I'm wondering if anyone knows how to get rid of the /index.php/ part?
How link looks now:
http://www.example.org/index.php/stuff
How link would look after URL ...
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file need to go through a php page using .htaccess
I'm looking for a way to convert this type of url : h11p://www.mywebsite.com/dl/F5EGD6
Into h11p://www.mywebsie.com/dl/files/my_file.zip sing a PHP page to request the URL from the DB with F5EGD6. I ...
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SEO benefits of URL as: www.example.com/category/subcategory/ [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
debating between different kinds of URL and see if one is more seo-friendly than other…
Our SEO advisors are claiming that having our URLs in the form:
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How can I rewrite an old URL using variables to a static html page?
I am an htaccess newbee
I am trying to redirect the old URLS for my site to the new URLS for my site.
The old site used variables in the URL but the new site uses SEO friendly URLs.
When I try to ...
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Mod Rewrite not working on my addon domain
have a wordpress website on my main domain
For the wordpress website i have this in my .htaccess file
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond ...
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Force url to use www [duplicate]
I'm confused about how to force my url to use www in the address.
I have a .htaccess code like this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
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Different robots.txt for two different domains point to same folder
I have the following two domains:
domain.com
test.domain.com
Both point to same folder which is "public_html". What I want is a different robots.txt file for each domain. So when someone ...
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Search Engine Friendly URLs with Query String
I have content that can be accessed from various ways. For example my content is reviews and I have three type of reviews:
/customer-reviews/11/slug.html
/third-party-reviews/11/slug.html
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How do search engines handle URL's when it comes to SEO?
I am building a website using Symfony. At the moment, the "raw" URL's being used are like this:
www.localhost.com/mainpage/home
www.localhost.com/events/1/name-of-the-event
When the development of ...
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Apache: Virtual Host and .htacess for URL Rewriting not working
I have configured a virtual host in my local machine and every thing is working fine.
Now I want to use SEO friendly urls. To achieve this I have used the .htaccess file.
My virtual host ...
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Personalized sub-domain URLs
Most of the SaaS companies, some social networking, and blog services (like Wordpress.com and blogger) create a personalized sub-domain for each user, e.g. username.website.com
What is the general ...
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Using ending .html for URL re-write?
For re-writing URLs to generate SEO friendly pretty URLs, it was usually recommended to use the ending extension (normally .html), as without the extension, the URL seems to be incomplete. Probably, ...
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Can Apache “Correct” URL Case?
Let's say I keep every word of file names capitalized. For example, Home.php or MultipleWordTitle.html.
Is there any way for Apache to redirect requests for incorrectly-cased URLs to the capitalized ...
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How does WordPress determine which template to show?
So I recently set up a Wordpress blog and I've noticed that when I make posts, the link is http://www.domain.com/?p=2. I was wondering how you could specify which file to use to parse such requests.
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Redirect multiple cctld's subdomains to tld subdomain
I have a site I use for development testing on one of our development servers, it is hosted at dev.domain.com.
I basically want to have www.domain.com, www.domain.ca, fr.domain.ca all point to ...
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how to rewrite %20 in .htaccess
I need to perform an equivalent rewrite to:
RewriteRule ^/this%20file.pdf http://www.example.com/
How do I handle the %20?
I have tried
RewriteRule ^/this\%20file.pdf http://www.example.com/
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URL Rewrite for SSL
I have SSL configured for a cart directory in my website. I'm having a very difficult time trying to configure SSL for a different directory within the same website. I ask the question on SO, and was ...
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Are urls with ?page=something bad for SEO? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is a URL with a query string better or worse for SEO then one without one?
I have a listing of members on my homepage. My dynamic urls are quite simple:
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rewrite url (redirection)
How to rewrite url:
www.domain.com
domain.com
to
www.domain.com/sell.html
Were sell.html is already rewritten I need some kind of redirection.
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URL Rewrite to subdomains?
say i have a website with /article.php?id=1&category=Minecraft&Name=Lorem+Ipsum
and /topic.php?category=Minecraft
how would i setup url rewrite to make the topic pages being
...
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URL Rewrite http to https EXCEPT files in a specific subfolder
I am trying to force all traffic on my web site to use HTTPS, using the URL Rewrite 2.0 module added to IIS 7.5. I got that working and now have a need to exclude a couple of pages from using SSL. So ...
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Domain forwarding with url substitution in the address bar
I have a blog being served by a machine I have at home. Since the ip can change i set up a dyndns domain to always point to that machine. However, I purchased a more friendly domain (at godaddy.com) ...
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How to add an exception to this rewrite rule
I need to change this so that one file in wp-admin is not forced through https:
# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ ...
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Are there some permalink typology better than others for SEO?
I am pretty new in WordPress and on my blog I am using permalinks.
I have seen that there are 5 topologies of permalinks and I don't know if some types are better than others for search engines for ...
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how can I set parameters for google webmaster tools to index my dynamic content
I have read questions about URL parameters in Google Webmaster Tools in this site and the Google Webmaster Help Center but I have a problem.
My site searches in the database and show some ...
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Redirecting previous domain subfolder links
I've recently bought a domain that was unregistered. After looking in Google webmaster tools, Google is trying to crawl random pages that don't exist. Turns out it did have a previous owner.
The ...
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My WordPress site must be being affected by outside sources
Some of my pages are resulting in 310 errors (too many redirects). We recently switched domains from kgstiles.com to healthmasterysystems.com then discovered healthmasterysystems.com was listed as not ...
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Changing uri-design SEO
I think I need to redesign my uri-collections of my site.
Right now I am using the following structure by a mistake:
/fruits for the whole collection
/fruit/banana for an item in the collection
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How do I do URL re-writes on Plesk?
I am very new to URL re-writing and I am using Plesk which is window-based web server, hence I can't use Apache's mod_Rewrite. Can anyone tell me what is the proper procedure for this?
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Where does one find syntax descriptions for IIS URL Rewrite condition input variables?
The need to understand what the variable represents and also perhaps examples of what it contains would be helpful. I've seen such postings for URL Rewrite of Apache in the documentation, but nothing ...
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Decode url in httpd.conf or htaccess
For some reason I am getting 404 errors in my log file because of users trying to access something like http ://www.domain.tld%3Fid%3D222 instead of http://www.domain.tld?id=222
I've unsuccessfully ...
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What impact (if any) will using the term 'portal' in my subdomain names, have on SEO for my website?
I am building a portal for a specific category of information. I am trying to decide whether to use subdomains like:
www.portal.mysite.com/home.html (home page)
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