On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 23:17 +0100, Nathan Rixham wrote: > Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:54 -0700, Ryan S wrote: > >> quite a few sites seem to have a very neat way of implementing this with (url rewriting?) something like http://sitename/blog/tags/tag-comes-here/ > > > As for getting those search terms, well a link in a page can contain GET > > values, such as http://www.somedomain.com/blog?tag=search_term . > > Alternatively, you could use mod-rewrite to rewrite the URL and turn the > > path into tag variables. This is the same as the above but with the > > added benefit that users can type in tags directly more easily, and > > there are apparently benefits for SEO with this method as well (but I'm > > not sure how true that is) > > it's very true; from the google webmaster guidelines: > > If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a "?" > character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic > pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and > the number of them few. > > previously it was text along the lines of "google doesn't index all > pages with query parameters, so avoid them where possible" > > additionally one of the weightier points in categorising pages within > the SERPS is the text in the url (especially if the page is actually > about /the_tag_in_the_url : see http://www.google.com/search?q=tags) > What I meant was this definately used to be the case, but I've not found it to be anymore. Try searching the various engines with a strange/obscure question (a real one obviously!) and look at the results. Often you'll find forums are the main results, which almost exclusively use GET parameters rather than URL rewriting. Also, you mention about keywords in the URL; GET parameters qualify for this, but I agree, certain parts of the URL (i.e. domain, path, querystring, anchor) could have different weightings. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
