[UPHPU] Rewriting Apache URLs

[Smith, Jeff]

My understanding is most search engines give preference to pages whose
URL includes the keyword.  In other words

http://www.somesite.com?id=1342 is not indexed the same as 
http://www.somesite.com/2006/08/07/fileFuzzing 

in fact the first url is devalued even more by most search engine
because it has a URL including a "ID=" parameter.  I do not fully
understand the logic.  I personally think the second url looks nicer.

PS is this group a top posting or bottom posting group.  I subscribe to
too many enforce both methodologies. 

Jeff Smith


-----Original Message-----
From: uphpu-bounces at uphpu.org [mailto:uphpu-bounces at uphpu.org] On Behalf
Of Walt Haas
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 9:23 AM
To: uphpu at uphpu.org
Subject: Re: [UPHPU] Rewriting Apache URLs 

All,

This is an issue I'm interested in, since mod_rewrite has been a
problem for a lot of people and it would be nice to avoid it.
Specifically what is gained by the URL rewriting you propose to do?

TIA  -- Walt

"Smith, Jeff" <Jeff.Smith at hollycorp.com> wrote:

> I have noticed on a couple of sites the URL is something like
> http://www.somesite.com/index.php/2006/08/07/articleName .  I know
this
> help with SEO, it also makes for a more meaningful URL compared to my
> current method of index.php?articleID=143.  I know this isn't strictly
> PHP related but if anyone will know you guys will.  How can I get
apache
> to accept this as a URL and PHP to properly interpret it?
> 
> Jeff Smith
> 
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