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Best way to go from dynamic to static URL?

by millerb7
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If I'm understanding correctly anyways. A URL that looks all crazy for lets say, an about page... how do you get that to show like URLEXAMPLE/about?

Thanks in advance.
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  • Profile picture of the author shaktimaan
    Originally Posted by millerb7 View Post

    If I'm understanding correctly anyways. A URL that looks all crazy for lets say, an about page... how do you get that to show like URLEXAMPLE/about?

    Thanks in advance.
    Try this

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    Shaktimaan

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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      My advice, which will not please everyone, is to start over.
      Copying old posts, make new ones, delete old post.

      The reason is that I have tried, midstream, to change. Unfortunately,
      it seems to wreak havoc on the old posts. And if you tried to do them
      one by one, well,....

      One more reason I am going full steam for blogspot blogs.
      No muss, no fuss. In fact, my biggest wordpress was slinked over,
      one post a day, until now that blog is full and kicks butt. I did not
      have to do every post. Some were irrelevant today. Streamlined the
      blog, got the power of google. Old blog redirected to new.
      Done and done.

      Paul
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      If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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      • Profile picture of the author millerb7
        So in theory, if you choose to not redo the site, you can create a directory rewrite? So it will just do all your pages for you at once (as they are visited)... you do not have to do page by page?

        Any benefit to either one?
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  • Profile picture of the author JamesM
    Personally I use URL rewriting to do this kind of thing. However, it's usually a pretty technical process that is beyond a lot of people. The good news is that Wordpress can often do it out-of-the-box, so if that's your platform you might be in luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author dhex
    I think the answer depends on the cms you are using. If you are on joomla, the cms comes with a default plug in to help you create SEF(search engine friendly) urls. You just activate that plugin, then you good to go.
    If you have pages alreday indexed on google, creating another set of SEF urls may result in duplicate content, so you should deal with that suing 301 redirect. Redirect all dynamic urls to the new SEF urls using .htaccess file. This also helps you preserve any referral traffic you may have from your dynamic links. I cant give you the details about htaccess codes because I'm newbie myself about that. But this is the logical step i would take if i were in your situation.
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    • Profile picture of the author millerb7
      I actually am using wordpress, and it does it right out of the box perfectly.

      I'm also learning Joomla right now, and again, I noticed it does it as well.


      The question was more general in nature, just inquiring for future reference if I may need it.

      Has anybody tried to optimize certain items on an e-commerce site? I'm sure somebody has, just curious how well that worked for you... they seem to be rather low on HTML and dynamic URL's.

      Again, pure curiosity.

      Thanks for the responses though
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