SEO URL naming tips

[xppman]

Yes I hope "this" helps.  ;D

[regic]

[quote author=BellisimaJ. link=topic=5290.msg25127#msg25127 date=1159450815]

What is the diff between static and dynamic as applied to url's?[/quote]

If you create a .html page and upload it to your server it is static.  The server will fetch that pre-made page each time a visitor requests the page.

If a page is generated (created) on the fly by a program every time a visitor requests it the page is dynamic.

Many times you can't tell that a page is dynamic just by looking at the URL.  The following pages all are dynamic:

Code:

http://community.tuliptools.com/index.php?action=viewblog;u=47;id=18
http://articles.tuliptools.com/index.php/search-engines?cat=15
http://articles.tuliptools.com/index.php/search-engines/2006/06/04/search_engine_optimization_what_to_avoid
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.php/board,59.0.html
http://www.tulipstuff.com/demozen/hewlett-packard-sale-with-attributes-not-on-sale-p-61.html

Pages 2,3,4 use Apache's mod_rewrite to change the URL to a more search engine friendly format but they are still dynamic pages.

[BellisimaJ.]

Xp, you are a sweetie!!xxxxooox
TY for all your hard work and it did help me to get it!!      so I may be asking more questions, as I feel this is one thing we can all do fairly easily to improve our SEO rankings (if I ever get my boinking site up      ).


Reg, thanks to you also. A question. Is the Apache mod something we should all consider using?

[xppman]

Here is my question about search friendly urls or maybe my contention
after reading the article in this thread.

I have a product and it url is:
http://www.mysite.com/product_info.php?cPath=12&products bla bla bla

SEE the php?cPath=12&products?

This is the part that concerned me after reading the article the "?"
Seems this is not search friendly and is why I say:

I think it can be over come by having good content on your main page
and search engine friendly URLS where ever possible through out the site.

Pages with the .html or htm as opposed to pages with the ? sting.

I'm really not sure about this, but I have converted all my old pages
(still active that are being picked up and indexed and have good placement)
to look like my NEW pages but all
those pages have .htm or HTML at the end.

For example:

oscMax pulls dynamic product pages up as:

http://www.mysite.com/product_info.php?cPath=12&products bla bla bla

But the old site (still active) pulls up pages that LOOK just like the oscmax pages
visually but are like this:

http://www.mysite.com/mycoolwidget1.HTML

SEE???

PS I think an "Apache mod" is and Indian girl in a swim suit ad.