How To make SEO Friendly URL

[amskape]

Hi Friends , My need I depicted Below.... Please Help me how it can

possible.


Explanation by Example :

Suppose, there is one website url :
www.sitename.com/article.php?id=5

I can convert the URL in SEO friendly manner with rewrite rule in
.htaccess file as below :
www.sitename.com/article/5 [I CAN DO THIS]

But what I want is, The name of the Article in the URL like :
http://www.sitename.com/article/the_...e_article_here [I WANT THIS]

I tried lot for the solution of this problem but didn't got any.
Please tell me if you can suggest any tip.

I am waiting for your Good help

Regards
Anes

[Len Whistler]

article.php?id=5 is a SEO friendly URL just like showthread.php?t=196155, which is the URL of this thread. When you Google coding problems you will find that the threads on CodingForums come up regularly on the 1st page of the results, sometimes within hours - now that's SEO friendly as you can get.



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[dEcade]

The only problem with doing it that way would be if one article has the same name as another.

You could have it so that you use

http://www.sitename.com/article.php?...icle_name_here

and it looks for the name in the database rather than the id number.

I would include the id number in the url so that there isn't any confusion and just have the article name tag along.

www.sitename.com/article/5/name_of_article/

[Len Whistler]

This thread is number 8 first page by searching thread title: How To make SEO Friendly URL And only 2 1/2 hours after original post.


http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=...59ab474882bfe2



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[is_set]

its very easy use any fuction depend on replace ' ' to '_' and add it in the title of the page for the url

[MattF]

As Len mentioned, all valid URI's are search engine 'friendly'. The whole S.E.O thing is a term thrown around and used so that the people spouting it can sell their software and/or services. Crap or nonexistent content will lead to crap ranking no matter what your URI format, and the converse also applies. Good content, well indexed and ranked.

I've yet to see one S.E.O "expert" prove otherwise, or even have a believable argument to the contrary.

[kbluhm]

These types of URLs are probably better explained and sold as USER friendly rather than SEO friendly. I agree with Len, search engines these days are smart. The URLs are easier to understand semantically from a user point of view, which is why -- and only why -- I find them useful. But they don't really help SEO a huge amount.

[MattF]

Originally Posted by kbluhm

The URLs are easier to understand semantically from a user point of view, which is why -- and only why -- I find them useful.

Aye, they can be handy in that regard. If someone just drops a link on a page, the title inclusion in the link can give one a passable idea of what it's about.

[seouk512]

As it is admitted fact that google dont give more attention to seo friendly URL but it will increase the points. Google mostly gives importance to Meta Values + Contents in the body.

There are various ways to make search engine friendly URL but remember two points.

1. only use alpha numeric and - sign in the place of space character.
2. dont make it lengthy, it should be 100% relevant to topic


Thanks & Regards

[disastro]

I agree with most of what the other posters are saying. These 'pretty' URLs won't do much for SEO but can be easier for users.

To answer your question. Assuming your .htaccess file looks something like this:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ([^/]*)/([^/]*) index.php?type=$1&id=$2 [L]

Where your index.php will take the "type" parameter as "article", "examples", "something else" etc. And "id" is the article id, then once the first two parameters are given, the rest make no difference.

For example:

http://www.mysite.com/article/5
http://www.mysite.com/article/5/The-Article-Title
http://www.mysite.com/article/5/Some-Random-Text

All these links will resolve to the same article (index.php?type=article&id=5)
You can give it whatever title (in the link href) you wish.

Of course, the .htaccess above is not what you would actually use (you will need to make sure requests for CSS, javascript and images all get through).

[disastro]

Man, I really should have checked the date on this thread.
Don't know why it popped up to the first page.
(Also, not relevent to PHP).

Here's hoping it sinks back down to wherever it came from.

Sorry folks. Nothing to see here.