goodroi
msg:4052947 | 5:35 pm on Jan 2, 2010 (gmt 0) |
nice tip and a good brainteaser for the next pubcon :)
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KenB
msg:4052966 | 6:08 pm on Jan 2, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Good brain teaser for Pubcon maybe, but right now Webmaster tools (WMT) is throwing 350 not followed followed errors due to googlebot's inability to follow my redirects. :( Now I have to wait a week or two for those errors to clear themselves out of my WMT crawl error log. grrrr....
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jdMorgan
msg:4052989 | 6:48 pm on Jan 2, 2010 (gmt 0) |
The take-home lesson here is to avoid "special characters" in the URL-path-part of a URL. You can use these special characters more freely in the query string part (always-encoded if need be), but the URL-path-part has many more restrictions [tools.ietf.org]. Like it or not we are *not* free to use 'just any' characters anywhere we want in URIs. Jim
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KenB
msg:4053026 | 8:28 pm on Jan 2, 2010 (gmt 0) |
This is a really old part of my site. Basically it is using some rewrite rules to convert the URL into a query string. For instance behind the scenes, http://example.com/foo/widgets%3A%20blue.html is handled as http://example.com/index.html?foo=widgets%3A%20blue It is actually a chemical database, with each chemical name being the "filename". This lead to some really messed up file names, but like I said this section of my website is almost ten years old so there is a limit to what I can do to fix things without taking some serious SERP hits. Remember way back when I added this section of my site, query strings weren't treated as nicely by search engines as were "real" web pages so it was important to rewrite queries into the main URI. Even today there is debate whether one should rewrite queries into the main URI.
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eeek
msg:4056466 | 3:51 am on Jan 8, 2010 (gmt 0) |
| Basically it is using some rewrite rules to convert the URL into a query string |
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Have you considered using pathinfo instead of a query string?
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KenB
msg:4056473 | 4:07 am on Jan 8, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Pathinfo wouldn't resolve my stupid encoded character issue and the query strings work just fine. They are hidden from users since I'm using RewriteRule and any changes to the design of the site in this matter would be drastic beyond measure. As they say, don't fix what ain't broke. The stupid %3A issue was a break that had to be fixed, but that wasn't a RewriteRule problem.
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speedshopping
msg:4084349 | 5:30 pm on Feb 21, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Hi,
We had 110,000 keywords that looked like this:
www.domain.com/keyword A/
You will notice it has a space within the keyword part of the URL.
After noticing recently in WMT that Google had started to have problems with the spaces (although it had managed to index 70,000) we changed the format to:
www.domain.com/keyword%20A/
i.e. replacing a space with a %20
Since doing this we have noticed in WMT that in just over 72 hours the indexed URLs has gone from 79,000 to 30,000!
Is Google treating the URLs as being different?
Can anyone help us?
Regards,
Wesiwyg
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dstiles
msg:4084463 | 10:36 pm on Feb 21, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Spaces in URLs is just asking for trouble. Ditto certain symbols. Use hyphens or underlines.
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