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Author: Nathan Wells
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:33724#178789
>Just finished my article. Enjoy
>http://www.fusionauthority.com/Article1.cfm/ArticleID=4226
Great article Michael. I tried to implement the code you posted, and found one
thing people should be aware of. The use of a colon in a URL may not be allowed
if you're using Microsoft IIS. It seems that Microsoft considers the colon a
special character.
For more info, see:
http://forums.devshed.com/t86108/s.html
Author: Michael Dinowitz
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:33724#169777
Just finished my article. Enjoy
http://www.fusionauthority.com/Article1.cfm/ArticleID=4226
Author: Raymond Camden
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:33724#169557
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I have to agree. I've never had issues w/ search engines indexing my dynamic
sites. The only real use I've seen for shorter URLs is for simplicity's
sake. For example, at cflib.org we allow for www.cflib.org/udf.cfm/UDFNAME.
That way if you know the name you can quickly get to a UDF.
Author: dave
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:33724#169523
thats why u stick your dynamic content in your meta tags
been that way 4 yrs now
Author: Stephen Milligan
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:33724#169522
I can also attest to this.
When the Farcry website (http://farcry.daemon.com.au) started using my
Friendly URL Servlet they noticed a huge increase in both search bot
spidering and a much improved ranking in google for several search terms.
The search engines all seem to be quite happy to put dynamic content in
their indexes, but pages with a URL parameter seem to get a lower ranking
than equivalent ones without.
All of this is subjective/anecdotal and I've never seen any absolute metrics
or proof of how significant the effect is, other than people telling me that
the FU Servlet has had a big impact on their search engine placement.
Whether that's wishful thinking on their part, or a result of a combination
of factors including SES URLs I don't know.
Spike
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Stephen Milligan
Code poet for hire
http://www.spike.org.uk
Do you cfeclipse? http://cfeclipse.tigris.org
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Author: Michael Dinowitz
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:33724#169520
I have. When I redid the HoF site in SES urls, the amount of search
agents hitting the site went waaaay up and the amount of indexed pages
did as well.
My SES url article should be posted to the front of HoF and FA by morning.
It doesnt take much searching on google or yahoo to see that dynamic
pages DO get indexed.
I read somewhere recently that its not an issue of dynamic pages being
indexed, however, the issue is that the search engines will not spider
pages from a dynamic url.
This is not something that i have been able to prove incorrect. Has
anyone seen any evidence that supports or contradicts this theory? I am
just curious what other developers have seen.
sim
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 21:35, Sean Corfield wrote:
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Author: simeon
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:33724#169519
It doesnt take much searching on google or yahoo to see that dynamic
pages DO get indexed.
I read somewhere recently that its not an issue of dynamic pages being
indexed, however, the issue is that the search engines will not spider
pages from a dynamic url.
This is not something that i have been able to prove incorrect. Has
anyone seen any evidence that supports or contradicts this theory? I am
just curious what other developers have seen.
sim
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 21:35, Sean Corfield wrote:
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Author: Sean Corfield
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:33724#169518
> http://www.mysite.com/index.cfm?page=productSummary&catID=12
>
> however, most search engines will only index the index.cfm page sine the
> remainder of the url is "dynamic".
This seems to be a commonly voiced fear but searching on various
search engines simply doesn't seem to back this up and I suspect that
modern search engines *do* use the query string parameters just
fine...
Author: Robert Munn
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:33724#169496
>however, most search engines will only index the index.cfm page sine the
>remainder of the url is "dynamic".
I wonder how much that is still true. Admittedly, I do mostly intranet-based
work, but I recently built a site for my wife's real estate business and had no
problems with URLs for a Fusebox 3.0 app.
>I remember seeing some good way around thing a while back but seem to
>have lost track of those resources.
Here is a HOWTO on the subject:
http://www.cfhub.com/contributions/SES/
Here is a product that does it for you automagically:
http://www.cfdev.com/products/productdetail.cfm/id/1023
Author: Chris Alvarado
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:33724#169476
Hello all,
I have an app that calls pages dynamically via switching statements and
url variables similar to early fusebox applications.
Something like:
http://www.mysite.com/index.cfm?page=productSummary&catID=12
however, most search engines will only index the index.cfm page sine the
remainder of the url is "dynamic".
I remember seeing some good way around thing a while back but seem to
have lost track of those resources.
Any suggestions?
Thanks everyone,
-chris.alvarado
[ application developer ]
4 Guys Interactive, Inc.
281.807.4344 x1716
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