SEO ideas with PHP

designing new site and need some input

[wfernley]

Hello,

I am designing a new site and I wanted to try something different. It is with a cheap hosting company that will work for the site. What I was wanting to do was design it without using $_GET id's and use more keywords in the address bar. Basically go from category.php?id=12345 to /keyboards/microsoft/ kind of thing. Anyways, considering I am going with a cheap hosting company I dont have access to fool around with Apache to make this work. I was curious if there is a way I could design it to still be dynamic with keywords in the address bar without having to do something with my hosting company. I have heard stuff about .htaccess. Could I use this? Also, how do developers do it where they have keywords and it says it is in .html format but it is still dynamic? I was thinking of asking this because I am starting to work on the dynamic sections of my site. Can anyone help?

thanks :)

Wes

[jamie]

hi wes,

google for "search engine friendly urls" and you'll find loads of helpful stuff - you can then narrow things down.

this sitepoint article is a helpful one:
[sitepoint.com...]

this one by evolt is also useful:
[evolt.org...]

hth

[jatar_k]

there is also this primer
An Introduction to Redirecting URLs on an Apache Server [webmasterworld.com]