Hi everybody,
I tried the excellent Simplified Url's Hack and I have a question :
Is it possible to add the page title in the address ?
like this :
http://www.mysite.com/Unik_Number-Title-of-the-page.htm
or :
http://www.mysite.com/N-VT-id-4108-f-5-Title-of-the-page.htm
instead of this :http://www.mysite.com/newbb+viewtopic.topic_id+4108+forum+5.htm

I think Google would prefer...

Thanks

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That is a myth, it may help a little bit, but Google can handle long and complex URLs just fine (XOOPS.org has pagerank 8 without simplified URLs).

Herko

have you read the other posts in this forum regarding simplified urls and google? according to some users it makes no difference.

Yes, I know, my site is in very good place in Google, even without any url rewriting.

But I'm a perfectionist :)
My meaning is the following ...
1/ If My title is the title of the post (for the forum, for example)
2/ If the 100 first words are the title of my page
3/ if the title of the post is on the page also
4/ If MY adress is the title of the post

I will have a better place for the searchs with the words used in the title of the post.

So I'm looking for a way to do it :)

Nobody knows how to put the title of the post in the address ?
Plz help me

simple answer: not possible without re-writing parts of the modules in question.

extended answer: In nearly every web application (read: module) the querystring plays an important role. You can think of a web script as similar to a programming function. In order for a function or script to work properly, they both need certain information, called parameters. The application developer decides what parameters are necessary for that script or function to perform its duties, then supplies the code that reads those parameters and does something with them. And like a programming function, if you remove one of those necessary parameters, the script stops functioning properly.

The original question was basically trying to remove one of those necessary parameters (the numeric id's) and supply an alternative one (the text title for the page). In order for the web script to still function properly, it would have to contain a way to convert that text title for the page back into the numeric id (for all you programmers out there, I know it wouldn't necessarily be turned back into the numeric id, but I'm trying to keep it simple). In addition, applications that provide this type of parameter have to be very careful on what text they allow. If done improperly, these parameters are easy targets for hackers.

update - I notice by re-reading your original post that you wouldn't be removing any parameters. However, I still don't think it to be possible, because the page title is not available to the re-writing script.

Many Thanks

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@herko

xoops.org has google pagerank 8 but http://www.xoops.org/modules/news pagerank not 8 !