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Old January 23rd, 2013, 03:00 PM
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PHP-General - Rewrite URLs to be SEO Friendly
Looking for advice on how to properly rename the URLs on my website to be SEO friendly. The website is PHP with an .htaccess folder in the admin panel. I'm not a PHP guru, but I know a little about editing code.

I'd like to use the best method that is SEO friendly.

Any suggestions?
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The best way is using dash separated keywords like

category-name/current-page-title
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  • Keep your rewritten URL's directories to a maximum of 2-3 for SEO (i.e.. example.com/dir1/dir2
  • You can appened .html to the end of your main pages (i.e.. example.com/dir1/final_destination.html)
  • Use Keywords in your URLs, that are also present in your content. (i.e.. example.com/articles/article-or-news-title.html)
  • Use dashes in your URL's and not underscores. Search engines recognize dashes as spaces
  • Keep your directories in your URL's open without a trailing slash for pages that just lead to yet another page (i.e.. example.com/category1/morecategoriesafter
  • Follow a consistent URL naming scheme throughout your entire site. Break out the pad of paper and pencil and design a naming scheme that you can follow. Plan, prepare, execute.

Also, I think this thread would do better in the Search Engine Optimization section of this forum.
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Thanks for the advice, but I need to understand how to do the rewrite properly.

1. Would I use the following code to 301 w.cityofficespaces.com/default to w.cityofficespaces.com ?

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^w.cityofficespaces.com/default [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ w.cityofficespaces.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

2. How would I rewrite w.cityofficespaces.com/Search/SearchDetails/24 to become w.cityofficespaces.com/office-space-for-rent-new-york-city/midtown-west/24 ?

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One issue many newbies to .htaccess rewritning stumble on is this:

.htaccess and php don't talk to each other, so just adding URL rewriting to .haccess does not automagically rewrite the outgoing html - you have to do this in your templates.

.htaccess rewriting is for rewriting the incoming requests from a request that does not match a file to a request that does match a file

eg when a user requests

http://www.example.com/friendly/link.html

then the server actually gets

http://www.example.com/index.php?q=friendly/link.html

(for example)

This can be achieved with

Code:

#turn on rewrite engine

RewriteEngine On

#operate on web root

RewriteBase /


#if the request is not an existing file, continue

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f


#if the request is not an existing directory, continue

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

#do a rewrite.The L option means that no further rules should be processed after this one, if this one executes

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

#(can't remember what the QSA options are about;) )


your templates would then need to make the links to

http://www.example.com/friendly/link.html

instead of

http://www.example.com/index.php?page_id=8
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Also, I think this thread would do better in the Search Engine Optimization section of this forum.

Back when we thought he wanted advice about what they should look like, yes, but since the question is apparently about how to do it this thread here is fine.
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