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Kristen
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graz
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Posted - 2007-06-20 : 07:02:39
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| I've thought about that long and hard for the forums. To make that work I would need Snitz to generate those types of URLs. I don't think I can make those types of changes. I think their URL generation is embedded in too many places.If you just want a single URL that's better for searching and does a redirect back to their search page we could look into that.===============================================Creating tomorrow's legacy systems today.One crisis at a time. |
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Kristen
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Posted - 2007-06-20 : 07:41:20
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I was thinking of a shortcut to shorten the typing I do ... plus it would be more obvious to the reader that they were being taken to an FAQ, rather than direct to the answer ... so its just a URL-conversion thingie, and probably only for my benefit  Were you thinking (your first point) about displaying the Subject as the URL, instead of the TOPIC_ID? (I can understand that Snitz would be hard to MOD in that way)I'm really really unconvinced that friendly URLs help search engineering. All the URLs for our application are /OurSingleApplicationFile.asp?PAGE=1234&Other=Stuffand I can't see that our clients have any better/worse ranking in Google (dunno about the rest, does anyone use them?  )However, our clients that have good, detailed, content getting better ranking than the ones that don't ...Kristen |
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graz
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Posted - 2007-06-20 : 08:07:59
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| There really isn't any way to change how the forums generate their URLs so I didn't spend much time considering subject vs topic ID. In may application I can guarantee a unique page name but that's not possible in Snitz so it would have to be topic ID.I think good URLs help search engineering less than they used to but I do think they help. And I like every little bit I can get :) The old page style was ranked highly by Google. I do think the more variables you get the harder it is for Google to figure out the important ones.===============================================Creating tomorrow's legacy systems today.One crisis at a time. |
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