Re: searching by tags....

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On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 01:17 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote:
> 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 :-)
> > 
> 
> 
Yeah I saw that too...

What always gets me is that forums always feature really high on search
results, and I've yet to see one of these forums use URL rewriting! I
really think this belief about query-less URLs being more search engine
friendly is outdated.


Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk


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