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snydguy
Joined: Mar 09, 2000
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Posted: 2003-Jul-22 03:08
Does anyone know of any software for IIS that will parse the strange chararacters out of the urls so that you can have spider friendly pages. I need my websites dynamic pages visible to major Search Engines such as Google, Yahoo & MSN. Our site is written in Cold Fusion and I desperately need to get my pages ranked as I have sold my soul, actually my wallet to Overture and Google. I asked this questions a couple of years ago but need to have this done more than ever with the high cost of the pay per clicks. I did find one product called ISAPI_Rewrite but I was told that ISAPI filtering tools can cause database problems and search failures. I am not sure what to believe so I came back to the forums...old faithful. I have not been here in awhile but I know this is the place for info. Thanks if advance for any advice!
Sincerely,
Mike Snyder
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[ Message was edited by: unreviewed 07/22/2003 03:01 am ]
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jcokos
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Posted: 2003-Jul-22 06:49
I assume you want something that will allow you to not have urls like:
domain.com/script.asp?this=that&that=somethingelse
But instead have something like we use here at the forums:
domain.com/script.asp/this-that/that-somethingelse/
Basically the ?= and &= method uses the "QUERY_STRING" environment variable, which ASP parses for you with use in the Reponse variables.
What we use at the forums is another, little used environment variable called "PATH_INFO". Basically, your webserver sees that first URL in 2 parts:
script.asp
and this=that&that=somethingelse (note, that the "?" is not part of the actual query string)
When using "PATH_INFO", the same basic thing happens, the server sees 2 things:
script.asp
and /this-that/that-somethingelse/
Now, while this is search engine friendly, ASP (or perl or PHP) are not going to be able to parse that as a part of their core systems. You're going to have to roll your own parser, splitting on the "/" and whatever variable separator ("-" in this example)
So, yes, it can be done, but it's a lot of extra work, as your program needs to be able to handle both types of input.
My suggestion is to NUKE the default ASP response variables, and then reset them with your own parser. Pain in the butt, but it'll get you what you want.
All that being said .... I have no idea if IIS even understands or sets "PATH_INFO" properly 
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unreviewed
Joined: Dec 07, 2000
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Posted: 2003-Jul-22 11:02
They're a lot of third party isapi filters that can do the trick,
Google Search
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rachelreveley
Joined: Aug 07, 2002
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Posted: 2003-Aug-21 17:13
Thanks for the link I have been looking for this type of software but didn't know what to search for,
now to go and annoy our developers untill they take notice
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Webmaster-Toolkit.com
Joined: Jul 18, 2002
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Posted: 2003-Aug-21 20:18
rachelrevely, if you're using unix/linux you should get your developers to look at mod_rewrite (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html) - it can be very powerful in the right hands 
[ Message was edited by: Webmaster-Toolkit.com 08/21/2003 12:19 pm ]
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rachelreveley
Joined: Aug 07, 2002
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Posted: 2003-Aug-22 13:40
thanks Webmaster-toolkit
unfortunately where on windows 2000
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alex
Joined: Nov 21, 2003
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Posted: 2003-Sep-08 12:08
with URL Rewrite (ISAPI Filter for Microsoft IIS) you can achieve best results...
take a look this site
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.adleraudio.com+adleraudio&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=0
google has indexed >7000 dynamic pages!
homepage of URL Rewrite is
http://www.smalig.com/url_rewrite-en.htm
good luck!
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