Creating links to specific pages of content

any ideas?

[gingerbreadman]

I am about to start another campaign to request links to specific pages of content on my site.

I have loads of links pointing to the home page but I want to try and be more specific.

The problem comes in that the content pages sit quite far down the directory structure e.g.

http://www.example.com/sectiondirectory/subsectiondirectory/keywordcontentpage.html

I don't want to request people link to the exact page but I am thinking of creating directories 'pointing' to the content page e.g.

http://www.example.com/keyworddirectory/ (this would then redirect to the exact page)

My questions are:

1. What is the best way to name this directory? 'keywordkeyword', 'keyword-keyword' or 'keyword_keyword'.

2. What would be the best way to handle the redirect? 301 redirect, meta refresh or additional content page with links to real content page.

Any help/ideas would be appreciated
cheers

[Brett_Tabke]

>301 redirect

Yep

>'keywordkeyword', 'keyword-keyword' or 'keyword_keyword'

Considerable questions remain about that issue. I'd say kwkw would be out and you are left with either kw-kw or kw_kw.

I stay away from the - because that can be a legit character in a domain name. If se's ever filter urls based on dashes to eliminate dashed domain spam, who is to say they won't filter the whole url too? It would be easy to fall into that category.

So, I think the old underline is the winner.

[gingerbreadman]

I thought a 301 and an underscore was the way to go. I just wanted someone else to back up my initial thoughts.

nice one, cheers fella.

[Mohamed_E]

For what it's worth :) GoogleGuy prefers hyphens:

[webmasterworld.com...]

See also WebGuerilla's post (msg #12) in that thread.