Comments on: Search Engine Friendly URLs in Java http://gabrito.com/post/search-engine-friendly-urls-in-java Anecdotes on Java, Ruby, Sysadmin, SEO, Design, and Management Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:54:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: robot http://gabrito.com/post/search-engine-friendly-urls-in-java/comment-page-1#comment-42445 robot Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:56:36 +0000 http://gabrito.com/post/33#comment-42445 I like Option 1 and I used it temporary to 301-redirect old URLs which could disappear in SE indexes... Using query string as part of URL seems to be more natural. SE indexes such pages. However, many SE use specific algos and analyze long-term links statistics. And static "path" plays significant role... What to do? ?Computers is more natural for my site, and even better is ?c=12345 "?c=12345" can end up as long static path: /Computer/Notebook/Lenovo/PROM/Microsoft/Office (there are products in this category!) and even much more longer. I can't believe it can play a role for SEO in 2007. Anchor text and URL, but not "Path" inside URL. SE already know that URL path is not static, and URL query is not dynamic in so many cases. Of course I can use /12345 instead of ?c=12345, but I simply don't have time... additionally to UrlRewrite I will have to modify a lot of tags generating anchors. Thanks I like Option 1 and I used it temporary to 301-redirect old URLs which could disappear in SE indexes…
Using query string as part of URL seems to be more natural. SE indexes such pages.
However, many SE use specific algos and analyze long-term links statistics. And static “path” plays significant role…
What to do?
?Computers is more natural for my site, and even better is
?c=12345
“?c=12345″ can end up as long static path:
/Computer/Notebook/Lenovo/PROM/Microsoft/Office
(there are products in this category!)
and even much more longer.
I can’t believe it can play a role for SEO in 2007. Anchor text and URL, but not “Path” inside URL. SE already know that URL path is not static, and URL query is not dynamic in so many cases.

Of course I can use /12345 instead of ?c=12345, but I simply don’t have time… additionally to UrlRewrite I will have to modify a lot of tags generating anchors.
Thanks

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