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Putting product names in URLs to make them look static

         

jonescd

5:31 pm on Dec 7, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Webmasters,

I am planning to subsitute product titles as my product id in the csv file rather than just product id numbers that I currently have and am indexed for in Google and Yahoo. This would in turn give me dynamically generated urls that contain product names. Is this an appropriate strategy for dynamically generated url setup or should I be using mod_rewrite instead? The URLs would look similar to:

small-blue-30-mini-widgets.html

but could be up to 12 to 14 keywords long. Is this too long? Would I need extra code to make this work?

[edited by: lorax at 8:35 pm (utc) on Dec. 8, 2006]
[edit reason] widgetized [/edit]

FalseDawn

5:48 pm on Dec 7, 2006 (gmt 0)

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mod_rewrite is the recommended route.

Some of those look a little too long, and depending on how old your site is, it may not be a wise move to wholesale change all your URLs without careful planning.