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Hi Guys..and smoge.

I am deep involved in search engines optimising and just been to a convention for SEO’s.
Houston – We’ve got a problem.

We are all using url that send id in it. For example:
http://www.jaters.com/profile.php?ID=56

Google uses self ID as a parameter which means that ALL of our pages that got that in the url WILL NOT be index in Google… and that is a problem because the more pages from our sites indexed in Google the better it is for the site’s PR and for the place in the search results.

The only thing we need to do is chance the ID to something else like PID for example. That’s it. That will solve the problem.

So I am asking…is there a central place in our code/db that we could change that parameter’s name or we are talking about going deep into the script in every page and changing it over there?

Yair
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i wondered why they was not listing them pages i'dlike to know a answer for this to

chance the ID to something else like PID for example.

im no expert but i would like it so the profiles would be search engine friendly like faceparty.com has there profiles show up as

www.faceparty.com/username

this is good for advertising as they say if your chatting to someone on the internet who like to see you photo you can send them to your profile address as it is easier to remember than www.domain.com/profile.php?ID=45

like i said im no expert and dont know how to do this but like to hear from others on this as well yair

the above can be done using mod rewrite for those of you using apache.

wanted to say use mod rewrite but i think that is differentt

Hi Smoge,

Do you know the answer to Yair Czitrom's question? This is truly a very important issue for all of us.

Please let us know.

Thanks again,

Mary Jane

Originally Posted by TruckerJeff

Hi, If you are on a busy site, MOD REWRITE is out of the question as this would OVERWORK apache.

I need to differ on this some.... I think this is more of a rumour that fact.

There are some techinical issues I can go into about it if needed, but in general, mod_rewrite will not affect or have minimal effect on speed for those running a busy site on a dedicated server.

Smoge

Originally Posted by Mary Jane

Do you know the answer to Yair Czitrom's question? This is truly a very important issue for all of us.

His question is an old one, from back in 06-2005

But yes, mod_rewrite is an solution to this - the .php is replaced by .html - for profile views and direct profile links (like featured members, new members, etc).

Smoge

What do you mean when you say we are all using URLs with ID's in them - just ae ones, or do you mean ALL, as in the whole web?

Yair is just saying the the term "ID" in a URL is not good for SEO - and that aedating uses this (and dolphin too) - so he is looking to replace "ID" with something else, like "PID" - and later posts, people suggested why not /johndoe.html - using mod_rewrite.

Smoge