I'll start off this forum with the major problem off all dynamic languages, removing the variables. For those of you new to Coldfusion variables are the ? & = you see in your URL. Others may be asking why it's a problem to have a page like this

well it's because spiders have trouble with all those variables and more than likely won't spider the page. So now your asking what do I need to do to remove those variables? I personally use the free custom tag URL_Handler.cfm found at http://www.cfhub.com/contributions/ses/URL_Handler.cfm this tag takes

and changes it to

by doing this you allow your site to be easily spidered by all SE's.

I Hope this helps!

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Thats freakin great laura, the only thing I dont like is having to have that big chunk of code on each page, is there a way to pack it away in an external file and call it with just one header line? Either way, thats the easier mod_rewrite I've ever seen

Oh yeah and can you rewrite the directory structure like /keyword/next-keyword/pagename.cfm

???

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With Coldfusion there's an Application.cfm file where you add code that you want to be pulled by every page, automatically, no need for even one header line.

I'm sure there's a way to setup the url to appear /keyword/next-keyword/pagename.cfm but I'm not sure how to do it.

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IF you created a database full of your keyword phrases, you could then have the CF server create folders with your KW name, and within each folder, you could have pages full of keyword rich content.

The only problem with this is if the IIS settings on the server aren't configured to allow ColdFusion to handle it. It may think the page doesn't exist and send a 404. http://cfhub.com/contributions/ses/iis.cfm explains what I mean. Of course, my hosting company has this problem. (Naturally...). I'll attempt to get them to change this, but not sure they will.

I just got a promotion project for a site that is done in coldfusion, and this site has been online for over 2 years, the company has been using ppc since the site was set up. I first noticed that the site only has the index page on any search engine. So I automatically thought of having the programming team remove the ? and changing it to a / since they have almost the entire page coded dynamically (I mean even the pages that are static are being called by dynamic code, which there is no reason for)

So anyway I posted my notes asking if their programming team could look into this since I don't know cold fusion, and don't know how hard it would be to change. The responce I got was flooring! He also cc. my client in on this email, I have not yet thought of an ethical way to respond. I'll quote the points -

1) - Unethical; the main search engines are beginning to penalize websites who use "fool the search engine" tactics.

2) Waste of SEO effort; the big SE's are getting better at dynamic page
handling and cataloging. (This one I know is bogus, because the site has been online for 2 years and they havent gotten even a second look by the spiders, the entire linking structure is dynamically coded)

3) Impractical; since the "/" character is also used as a sub folder marker,
this would cause confusion. Also, this kind of setting modification would
affect all websites we have that use the Cold Fusion server.

I am looking to see if the reason stated by this programmer are correct or if he simply did not want to be bothered with it?

Thanks in advance. Any information would be very helpful!

Lisa Frisvold
CybrConsult.com

He simply did not want to be bothered with it.

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I was actually looking for a few more facts, as I said, I don't know alot about coldfusion, but what I have read does not seem consistant with what he sent to my client. I do have to respond to this in some polite mannor, and I would like to be factual.

Thanks

Lisa

CybrConsult~
I agree with dazzlindonna, that they don't want to be bothered with it. However, if you are looking for factual ways of doing this, I can get you some documentation on how you can achieve re-writes without "spamming" the se's or anything unethical. Also, if adding a "/" would cause confusion according to this client, there are a lot more issues going on with the hosting.

One solution to this rewrite is through the use of Custom Tags, which you must have permission to install them on the cf host's box.

Having the entire link structure dynamically coded and pulling up static pages is still using the functionality of cf: Perhaps the quickest solution is to create a site map of all the dynamically created pages for the spiders to crawl?

anyone got anymore info on this whether it is a good or bad way of removing variables in dynamic pages?

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