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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Why treat these as different URLs?
These are all strictly different urls:
http://www.example.com/page
http://www.example.com/pAge
http://www.example.com/page/
http://www.example.com/paGE/
I get that it conforms to the strict ISO ...
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SEO : urls : best place for the id
I would like to know what's the best location for an id in a SEO optimized URL:
http://www.site.com/id/slug-title
http://www.site.com/slug-title-id
What do you think ?
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Good Practice for Formatting SEO-Friendly URLs?
Does anybody know what the best SEO practice and most effective format for URLs is currently?
All lowercase or mixed case? Example:
http://www.mysite.com/What-is-My-Site/
OR
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How to remove trailing slashes from URL with .htaccess?
The situation
Across the entire domain, we'd like the URLs to hide file extensions and remove trailing slashes, independent of the domain name itself (as in, works on any domain).
Sample of our ...
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Which of these 3 URL-Rewritings are better seo friendly URLs?
Imagine my current flat-file non-cms website with an URL like http://website.com/en/tomato
This is of course very unsexy and could be anything really from tomato soup, tomato the music band, tomato ...
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How to Remove Extensions From, and Force the Trailing Slash at the End of URLs?
Example of current file structure:
example.com/foo.php
example.com/bar.html
example.com/directory/
example.com/directory/foo.php
example.com/directory/bar.html
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URL for separate mobile site
I've had a look through this site and found several similar questions but none which address my current needs.
Normally I create responsive sites but on occasion I will create a 'desktop' and a ...
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Ars Technica .ars URL suffix — Vanity or SEO Benefit?
The Technology website Ars Technica has adjusted their URL rewrite rules to end with a .ars. Traditionally, sites have taken advantage of this URL rewriting capability to completely eliminate file ...
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Is using URL Rewritting the only way to make sure all pages are cached by Google?
If I keep the pattern (index.php?module=test¶m=1) will pages be less likely to be indexed then if I use the pattern (test_param_1.html) ?
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WWW.yoursite.com or HTTP://yoursite.com which one is futureproof?
http://yoursite.com
www.yoursite.com
http://www.yoursite.com
yoursite.com
Which of these would you choose as your favourite to work with, if you were to make a site for 2011 and beyond, which ...
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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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How Do I Setup 301 Redirects in Google Apps Site?
I have just moved a website from a shared host to a Google Apps site.
Is there a way I can setup 301 redirects on my Google Apps site so that old links (with a different URL) can be 301 redirected to ...
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Site-wide redirect with Tomcat4
Disclaimer: My webmastering experience is almost nil. Apologies if anything seems ignorant - if it sounds that way, it probably is.
My employer is in the middle of switching over from one version of ...
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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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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?
