URL Friendly

Hi,

Is it possible to make the urls SEO friendly through a combination of .htaccess/modrewrites?

Arjun

Comments

Re: SEO-friendly URLs

First, SEO-friendly URLs are a touch over-rated. Google, the 85% monster of search engines doesn't seem to care, but some others do. The best way to gain search engine ranking is to have relative content, and then to link to that relative content from multiple-disparate locations using relevant words linked to your content - through blog posts, article posts, etc.

However, you may want to look at the xoRewriteModule (more a hack than a module) which replaces /modules/modname/ with /newmodname/. I've used it on a formulize installation and it works just fine. However, you may also need to make a single modification to initialize.php per my article to accomodate this change because it's otherwise hard-coded in that page to go to /modules/modname/cat.php (when a simple cat.php) will work. Maybe I should commit the change to the SVN because it won't matter either way and it works for both.

Good luck!

 

Re: SEO-friendly URLs

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your comments.

Arjun

Please commit at your liesure

Hi Mark,

Sounds like a worthwhile change. Commit if you want to. Just grab the latest copy of the file first, since there's probably been other changes since you made your alteration.

Take it easy,

--Julian