Search Engine Friendly URLs

[haschi]

Hi!

Is ist possible to designe URLs like

http://www.mysite.com/index.php?action=forum >> http://www.mysite.com/forum
http://www.mysite.com/index.php?topic=1121 >> http://www.mysite.com/forum/topic.1121
http://www.mysite.com/index.php?action=profile;u1 >> http://www.mysite.com/user/1

or something like that?

Marco

[Rumbaar]

Try a search of the many SEO related mods in the customization section.  You will have varying success depending on the actual mod you use and the configuration of your hosting server.

Be sure to check out any comment/support thread for a particular mod to see if it meets your needs.

I'm sure if you search the forum you might even find some .htaccess based code to possibly achieve what you want.

[rongsak]

i think this plugin is may be working ...

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=636

[青山 素子]

Note that fancy URLs will not help your ranking in search engines at all. If you are trying to do it for that purpose, it isn't worth the effort.

[Guru9]

Note that fancy URLs will not help your ranking in search engines at all. If you are trying to do it for that purpose, it isn't worth the effort.

This is a misleading statement at best. Search engines will spider deeper if the site does not have URLs that contain queries, therefore more pages will be indexed by the search engine. True, the pages may not rank any higher, but having more pages indexed is far more important than page rank. If you want to beautify URLs for SEO purposes, then there is no question that it will help.

[青山 素子]

Search engines will spider deeper if the site does not have URLs that contain queries, therefore more pages will be indexed by the search engine.

Proof please. I haven't seen this mention made anywhere else.