google search engine friendly URL and indexing
I was wondering if the result page url that has the encoded query string good for google spidering my site ?
Some quick questions that strikes me.
1. Are the encoded urls good for SEO ?
Currently I have :
http://mydomain.com/results/PAKErjnsd...
Is it better that i should use query strings instead to change it to
http://mydomain.com/results/?color="blue" .... etc.
2. I heard devot-ee.com uses low_search...they use query strings i noted...is there any other added advantage of it or its for the same reason.
3. Is there any other method that i have missed for neat urls in results page for human readability.
Eg : http://mydomain.com/color/blue/size/20 ?
Replies
Low 14 Jul 2014 18:46
To answer both 1 and 2: using GET vars instead of the encoded query makes the search URI more readable. I can't comment on the SEO part, I don't know how Google uses GET vars to determine page rank, if at all. The encoded query protects the search page to be URL-hacked, if that is needed. It also should work in all EE installs, whereas in some cases using GET vars won't work.
3. No. Using segments for search results like that would be up to regular old template code. You can use Low Search Shortcuts to create nicer URLs to predefined searches.
sajwal 14 Jul 2014 20:12
never noticed....Shortcuts is the answer....you save a lot of my time...Thanks a lot