User-friendly web addresses
Dec 31, 2008, 2:05 am
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User-friendly web addresses
I just noticed FT is now using vBSEO, which uses the Apache server's ReWrite engine to turn forum & post numbers into friendlier (and Google-able) web addresses. 
One question/issue, however: Why are you choosing to include the forum # in the titles, e.g.
instead of
If you omit the forum numbers, a user can type the URL for almost any forum from memory -- makes it a lot easier to navigate sometimes.
The catch is that you have to be sure you have no real directory name that will resolve a forum name. It also doesn't accommodate identical subforum names under higher-level forums.
Personally I feel the bit of extra work to ensure unique forum names is worth the quite user-friendly URL's that you get for the forums. You can send someone a link to a forum that's easily read and memorized instead gobbledygook numbers.
(And yes, I fully realize that the real motivation for adopting vBSEO is financial. ^ )
One question/issue, however: Why are you choosing to include the forum # in the titles, e.g.
instead of
If you omit the forum numbers, a user can type the URL for almost any forum from memory -- makes it a lot easier to navigate sometimes.
The catch is that you have to be sure you have no real directory name that will resolve a forum name. It also doesn't accommodate identical subforum names under higher-level forums.
Personally I feel the bit of extra work to ensure unique forum names is worth the quite user-friendly URL's that you get for the forums. You can send someone a link to a forum that's easily read and memorized instead gobbledygook numbers.
(And yes, I fully realize that the real motivation for adopting vBSEO is financial. ^ )
