Re: searching by tags....

Nathan Rixham schreef: > Ashley Sheridan wrote: >> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:54 -0700, Ryan S wrote: >>> quite a few sites seem to have a very neat way of implementing this >>> with (url rewriting?) something like >>> http://sitename/blog/tags/tag-comes-here/ > >> As for getting those search terms, well a link in a page can contain GET >> values, such as >> http://www.somedomain.com/blog?tag=search_term . >> Alternatively, you could use mod-rewrite to rewrite the URL and turn the >> path into tag variables. This is the same as the above but with the >> added benefit that users can type in tags directly more easily, and >> there are apparently benefits for SEO with this method as well (but I'm >> not sure how true that is) > > it's very true; from the google webmaster guidelines: > > If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a "?" > character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic > pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and > the number of them few. > > previously it was text along the lines of "google doesn't index all > pages with query parameters, so avoid them where possible" > > additionally one of the weightier points in categorising pages within > the SERPS is the text in the url (especially if the page is actually > about /the_tag_in_the_url : see > http://www.google.com/search?q=tags) ^-- some what ironic :-) >