SEO Friendly HELP PLEASE

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Last Post: July 23, 2009   (RSS)

By rentittoday - July 21, 2009

I hope you are well. I need your help with is topic and I didnt see it on the forum on in the help document.

Here is an example: If I was on the Rent It Today website (www.rentittoday.com ) and I was looking for a vacation property in Colorado. When you search Vacation Rentals, Enter Colorado as the "State" and just click Search, The return URL is the standard http://www.rentittoday.com/viewers/vacation_rentals_results.php

How can I make this link say something similar: www.rentittoday.com/viewers/vacation_rentals_results_colorado or something similar ?

Does this make since????



Any advice from anyone would help!!!!
Jason Glass

Re: [rentittoday] SEO Friendly HELP PLEASE

By Dave - July 22, 2009

Hi Jason,

There's a page here on removing the .php extension:
http://www.interactivetools.com/docs/cmsbuilder/file_extensions.html

The way most people do it is to use Apache's mod_rewrite module. It takes some custom programming but basically mod_rewrite can tell the webserver to pretend that urls that look one way are actually another way. So the user could request vacation_rentals_results_colorado and the web server would see: vacation_rentals_results.php?location=colorado

There's no simple setup for it though, it all has to be manually configured. A good first step would be to google for more info on mod_rewrite (This is an Apache module and outside of the scope of our support).

Hope that helps!
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com

Re: [rentittoday] SEO Friendly HELP PLEASE

By rentittoday - July 22, 2009

Interactive Tools,

I really want my links to say something similar to this www.rentittoday.com/vacation-rentals/usa/colorado/city (metro area, island, mountain area etc) / then address

Instead of the www.rentittoday.com/viewers/vacation_rentals.php



Can you help with this please/



Jason
Jason Glass

Re: [Dave] SEO Friendly HELP PLEASE

By rentittoday - July 22, 2009

Dave,

Thanks for the reply. My server is a windows server? Do you guys do this type of custom work to hard code URLS? Also I performed the change to remove the ? and change it to the / (meaning this: 'useSeoUrls' => false, // optional, use SEO urls, defaults to no) BUT of course I made it true. In the link it showed it was changed correctly but my listing didnt show the details of the property. I changed it back so it did work again. Any thoughts on this?



Jason

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Jason Glass

Re: [rentittoday] SEO Friendly HELP PLEASE

By ross - July 22, 2009

Hi Jason

That's an odd one. Could you send me an email through consulting@interactivetools.com with FTP details and a link to this thread? I'd like to have a closer look at what's going on.

Thanks!
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Re: [rentittoday] SEO Friendly HELP PLEASE

By ross - July 23, 2009

Hi Jason

Thanks for getting your details in. I just sent back an email but wanted to update this thread for anyone else following along.

Basically, the problem here is that the SEO friendly URLs are only supported by Appache and this site is running in IIS.

If you want to use SEO links, you'll definitely need to be on Appache.

Thanks!
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