Search Engine Optimization Tip for Pligg Sites

[TrailofDead]

Always trying to improve, I found this article:

No Fear of Remapping URLs of your Site

Apparently, static URLs are more attractive than dynamic ones to search engines. By adding this code to your .htaccess file, you can create static looking links to your dynamic story pages:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule story-(.*)\.html$ story.php?title=$1

This will allow a dynamic story url that looks like this:
http://www.acttup.com/story.php?titl...-well-wishes-1

To be accessible through a link that looks like this:
http://www.acttup.com/story-Accident...-wishes-1.html

Now, the article suggest recoding your site to use the static links, I haven't taken that one on yet.

[dollars5]

Good find, Also there is a redirect function in htaccess that is more friendly to the search engines and allow to crawl your site as before even after you have relocated.

[onelessthang]

So, should I use this URL2 Method? does the extension help that much?

[TrailofDead]

If you look at the article, the writer claims a 50% increase in traffic from organize search results.

[onelessthang]

URL 2 does give you a static look and feel, but it does not provide the .html extension on the end. In the article it does not specify that the .html is required.

The example they use does not have the .html

That is why I was asking for thoughts on the extension.

[TrailofDead]

After looking at this further, I think just using URL Method 2 would be no different. I don't think the .html at the end is going to help that much. So ignore this and go with method 2

[wanderer]

could you elaborate more on what do you mean with 'method 2'??! I'm really interested on using this script but seams is not seo friendly so i'm kinda looking for alternatives.

[chuckroast]

Originally Posted by wanderer

could you elaborate more on what do you mean with 'method 2'??! I'm really interested on using this script but seams is not seo friendly so i'm kinda looking for alternatives.

See here for URL method
URL Method

[wanderer]

thanks man.

[wanderer]

so this would be like the best method available to help with the SEO problem?