heavyEddie Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 On a new site I'm working on I'm using .htacess and mod_rewrite so I can create URLs that are SEO friendly. For example... http://www.bla.com/products/kitchen/coffee-pot http://www.bla.com/products/food/beverage/coffee-pot http://www.bla.com/products/x43252 (coffee pot model #) Ultimately, all these URLs will point to the same page. I know the first two examples are good for SEO, but the 3rd probably is not. Is it a good idea to redirect these two one of the other URLs or leave it alone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebadbad Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 It's always a good idea to have only one URL for one page, i.e. canonical URLs. Why have three? When a page is reachable from several URLs, (some) search engines will index them all, thus splitting the hits on each URL. Having one page with 1000 hits is better than having three identical pages with 1/3 of the hits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redarrow Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 Use one url and also when you recreate the url use the .htm at the end <<<<< seo hint...... sorry even better use the main keyword at the end off all links.... also if you use three links going to the same page and those links were on the same page the bots will punish you and your go last in que and get badly indexed.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavyEddie Posted October 13, 2007 Author Share Posted October 13, 2007 Thanks for the info folks... the goal is better SEO and not to make it worse. So, when I just read this article and it said to redirect to a single URL using a 301 redirect. Should the 2nd and 3rd url then redirect to the first? With a .html at the end Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redarrow Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 where trying to tell you not to use three links going to one page what linking to it self..... if you insest then use a 301 redirect ok..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebadbad Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 No, you should only use the single URL you like the best (the first, right?). Don't make up different URLs for one page, it just doesn't make sense. The article you read is more about redirecting from http://www.* to http://* as an example (thus getting rid of the unnecessary "www." when people type it). You can get technical details for that specific rewrite here: http://no-www.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavyEddie Posted October 14, 2007 Author Share Posted October 14, 2007 Yes, after thinking it through you folks are of course correct. I will probably have a category and rely on tags for an easy to find search. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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