Making a CMS site SE friendly

Substituting \view.asp?id=XX with keyword(XX).asp

[Torben Lundsgaard]

Hi all

I'm helping a client making a content management system search engine friendly. The most important isue is removing the ? from the URL's

The client has developed an ISAPI filter, which removes the ? in the URL but the CMS still requires the page id in the URL. There is no way arround this.

URL before: \view.asp?id=XX
URL now: \keywords(XX).asp

I'm concerned about the () thing and would prefer something like \keywords-XX.asp but that would require some programming.

Have you got any experience with () in the URL?

Torben

[DaveAtIFG]

I have no "experience with () in the URL" but I don't recall ever seeing a similar URL prominently listed in a search engine. Anyone??

[Torben Lundsgaard]

\keywords(XX).asp works with google. All pages have been indexed by Google and with good results.