mod_rewrite

Yesterday I thought that maybe pixelDepth should have search engine friendly URL’s, specially for the tutorials so it would be…

http://pixeldepth.net/tutorials/1/36546543/Introduction_To_PHP/

Instead of…

http://pixeldepth.net/index.php?action=tutorials&category=1&id=36546543

I thought I may as well do the whole site, which is what have been doing, but it’s taking so long to do, so many links and other things to change, I wish there was an easier way.

I hope to have it done for this weekend, will need a few people to test it for any invalid URL’s. Hopefully the keywords in the URL’s will bring in a bit more traffic and get higher up in the searh engines.

What are your thoughts on SEO?

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006 Programming

3 Comments to mod_rewrite

  1. Honestly… I can see the use of it - with most people using search engines to find a page on the net rather than navigating directly to it. It is in a way the “new” advertising, or rather, cheap advertising to get your website noticed - eToy did it back years ago and obviously it’s just more acceptable these days.

    That said…. it does depend on your site content. If you’re just, say, a forum javascript site, then advertising just at forums who need it will usually bring in 90% of your target audience, and they’ll push up your ranking. See: “invisionfree proboards javascripts” or “invisionfree proboards javascript codes” (no quotes needed in the search) for what I mean.

  2. James on October 18th, 2006
  3. I’m thinking about doing it for my site, I’ve left it flexible so I can do it if I can be bothered :P

  4. Simie on October 18th, 2006
  5. I’d probably do it for my site if my host supported .htaccess. It’d just be something fun to learn. =P

  6. Chris on October 21st, 2006

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