when I search google for a product, say a DVD player, I see
that some companies have been able to get the search engines to
index their product listings. In doing some research it seems that
one way they've done this is to make it look like each product has
a static page by replacing the query string character "?" with "/"
so the URL looks like a static page when really the server is
pulling dynamic content. I saw one reference to the following line
in one of the articles which referred to Coldfusion:
Reconfigure your Cold Fusion setup to replace the "?" in a
query string with a '/' and pass the value to the URL. The browser
interprets that as a static URL page.
Has anyone done this? I have a product database I'd like to
get indexed so in theory if I create a single page on my server
that has static links to all the products, each getting called by
the mocked up "static" URL, it seems like that will work. The
bigger quesiton is how does one go about changing the query string
in CF and does it apply to everything, meaning all the existing
pages I've built on the site that pass URL variables using "?",
will those have to be rebuilt now that the query string is changed?
Thanks
S