SEO - Making URLS Nicer through URL Rewrite

[Guard Dog]

I know I have had this questions MANY times... How do I rewrite my URLS to make them SEO-Friendly for my dynamic websites. Well, I had that question again today and searched SOOOOO many sites trying to find what I needed.

What I found was a site that did it all for me!!

URL Re-Write Generator
Mod Rewrite Generator by GenerateIt.net


That site will allow you to type in an URL like:

http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?id1=2&id2=slots&id3=review

and convert it to something like this:

http://www.mydomain.com/2/slots/review


That may not be a great example, but you get the point Very nice tool.

 

[archiehall]

AGD, I prefer to add links using a simple redirect.

Benefits

1) If a casino changes your links overnight, you can update your links with one click, sitewide.

2) It looks just as good and you can name the link whatever you want.

3) more organized.

4) safer if you are interlinking

Just add a new folder and keep all your links in the one place.

meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"
meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.XXX.com

Thats a simple html redirect. You can also use 301 redirects.

I see a lot of casino portals dropping in standard links. It must be a hell of a job when a site decides to change their affiliate link structure. With this methods you should have no issues.

 

[Guard Dog]

That is more for links to casinos that you are talking about..

I am talking about internal URLS so that you don't have an URL that looks like this:

http://www.somedomain.com/index.php?type=text&content=slotsreview&slot=incrediblehulk



that URL is not great for SEO purposes... much better like I showed above.

 

[archiehall]

Ah....

What I do is use keyword rich links.


affiliate-guard-dog.html

That is purely SEO. Good for search engines but crap for type in traffic.

 

[WCD Admin]

Right... like instead of:xxhttp://www.mydomain.com/2/slots/review

which is better than: xxhttp://www.mydomain.com/index.php?id1=2&id2=slots&id3=review

instead use a link like this: xxhttp://www.mydomain.com/slotland.htm

then back to what Guarddog says, to link to the casino itself use a link like this: xxhttp://www.mydomain.com/go/slotland.htm

 

[Guard Dog]

Exactly

Basically turning urls with parameters into proper SE-Friendly URLS.

 

[jamesprx]

RE

Siple URl will always helps in Getting good SERP in Search engines.
Also dynamic using dynamic url's in websites is a bad seo peractice.we should try to minimize these dynamic urls in website

 

[CaseyM]

This is by far the best way to implement URLRewritting;

(cant post links yet) : type scottgu url rewriting into google and its the first link.

Amazing article and has pretty much became the industry (web Dev) standard, however its for asp.net.

I've noticed that many people in the affiliate industry use php for their sites, anyone know the reason for that?

much prefer asp.net using c# myself

 

[Guard Dog]

The main reason (I think) for php is that the web is primarily run off of Linux servers. Windows servers are coming down in price, but Linux used to be WAY cheaper.

PHP seemed to have become the standard more because of this than anything else (seems to me, anyway). But- that could just be my perception of the landscape

I write both php and vb.net.

 

[CaseyM]

Yeah I thought of that but one can find good cheap windows hosting out there. I was toying with the thought that there might be some CMS especially for Affiliate Managers of something of the sort.

...anyways, I hate php so I'll always prefer to pay a bit extra and go asp.net

 

[Aussie-Dave]

Unix boxes (least in the early days) were renowned for withstanding heavy traffic that would take a Win box down.

I use php because all of the scripts (forum, blogs, tracking) ...ect..ect I've used in the past were written in php - this is going back to 2001. So it was a natural progression to learn php. In addition I've always hosted on Unix with Apache, Red Hat or similar.

I suppose each camp will always appose the other much like Holden enthusiasts don't care for Fords!



Cheers



Dave