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The Quick Guide To Search Friendly URLs in CMS Made Simple
Written by webchicklet on March 31, 2008 – 12:37 pm -I’ve mentioned before that my favorite easy CMS is CMS Made Simple (CMSMS). One of the reasons I love it is because it can create search-friendly URLs. What is that and why does it matter?
What is a search-friendly URL?
A search-friendly URL is one that makes it easy for search engines to index and understand what a page is all about. For example, www.yoursite.com/blue-widgets/ tells Google, Yahoo!, etc. that the page blue-widgets is about “blue widgets”.
Why does it matter?
Search-friendly URLs gives a page an extra chance to rank well for that phrase. Many CMS’s will create URLs like this:
www.yoursite.com/id=128483&catno=82746&colid=7373
That makes it just a little harder for that page to rank for “blue widgets” than it would for the search-friendly URL. In addition, search-friendly URLs are… Continue reading
Tags: CMS Made Simple, CMSMS, mod_rewrite, search-friendly URLs
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