Re: searching by tags....

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Nathan Rixham schreef:
> 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)

								^-- some what ironic :-)
> 


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