putting stupid search engine urls back

[Gabriel Ramuglia]

You really shouldn't have to use redirects, I would think. A rewrite
(mod rewrite in apache, I think nginx supports similar), will allow
people to directly access the friendly urls while your application
internally receives a request for the ?something=something urls. If
rewrites are using up so much cpu that you'd rather not have search
engine traffic than have to take the cpu hit to rewrite urls....
something is seriously wrong.

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 8:27 AM, AMP Admin<admin at ampprod.com> wrote:
> It's just that it seems to put a strain on the server to redirect
> everything.  Maybe I'm doing it wrong.  Also, when people submit content to
> bookmarks sometimes they get a redirect error.  It says something like 'this
> page redirects to' and then it won't bookmark.
>
> If I can make a nice clean sef that doesn't cause problems like that then I
> would love to use it.
>
> Also, if we move to a new platform a year or two down the line then those
> links woud need another redirect if the new system uses a different url.
> Does that make sense?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nginx at sysoev.ru [mailto:owner-nginx at sysoev.ru] On Behalf Of
> Gabriel Ramuglia
> Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 12:15 AM
> To: nginx at sysoev.ru
> Subject: Re: putting stupid search engine urls back
>
> If you do that, you're wasting SEO potential. If nothing else, the
> search engines take into account textual content in your urls when
> considering the topicality of the page. Without those keywords in the
> url, you'll have a harder time ranking for the relevant topics of your
> site.
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Ilan Berkner<iberkner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Perhaps not the appropriate forum... but why / where did you hear that it
>> was "stupid" to do / use SEF?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:36 AM, AMP Admin <admin at ampprod.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> A few years we went along with the buzz about writing search engine
>>> friendly urls.  Well now I think that’s stupid and believe the site will
> get
>>> crawled regardless.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Anyway, there’s bots and ppl still looking for the sef urls so I need to
>>> change them back.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> How can I make:
>>>
>>> /anyone-doing-late-ridei-t19640.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> into:
>>>
>>> /showthread.php?t=19640
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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