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I'm excited about the development of search-engine positioning URL hacks but, IMHO, it doesn't seem like either one, ShortURLs or exploz is really ready for prime-time yet. The work done is great, but it seems like both developers are quite busy at the moment and are not able to do much (I hope no one is offended - just my impression, and I'm sure that there are many more important things that occupy them).
I haqve to agree there Chappy: I have removed my shortURL hack from my production site, it caused too many modules to fail.
Before I used XOOPS my old static html site had much better traffic, mainly because there was a large influx of search engines serving pages, such as AltaVista, Alltheweb, MSN, BBCi, etc. In fact Google was often NOT my highest referer.
I installed a S/E friendly hack on my XOOPS site which has almost identical content, that was 6 months ago. I noted that Google still referes 99% of all my pages, with only a few from yahoo and altavista. Nothing from the rest, despite a friendly URL system.
I know Google tends to look at content and relevancy before meta-tags etc and that is particularly suited to XOOPS sites. The hack serves no useful purpose for google and seeing Google its my main referer, the hack may as well go.
I am interested however in the theme-changer module, as this also has meta tags input for individual modules. Still far off from page specific tagging, but getting closer ...
Richard