Comments on: Search Engine Friendly URL’s – coldfusion, cold fusion, CFML)

By: AlexW

AlexW — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:51:35 +0000

Google seems to read “?” okay in URL, but to my understanding, page rank doesn’t flow too well from the main page to the sub-directory if there is ? in it?

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:00:51 +0000

I am interested in this too. I generally take the position that Google has “figured out” how to deal with the ‘?’. So I don’t *think* there is any SEO value either way any more. I think that once upon a time, the ? was considered dirty. But not really anymore.

BUT – I do think there is a user experience issue. And also, as mentioned above, there is the emailing issue. Also, I’ve seen issues submitting url’s with ? and & into certain bookmarking sites. It would still be nice to make it go away. Is this possible in CF?

Thx

By: LA

LA — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:26:21 +0000

what happens when someone copies the new url, sends it to a friend, and then the friend clicks the link? wouldn’t you need to reverse your logic in that situation in order for the url to work?

By: ogletree

ogletree — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:58:13 +0000

It has been a while since I wrote this and have not worked with cold fusion since. I wish I had made documentation. Sorry. I don’t work with that client any more and don’t have access to a coldfusion server to tetst.

By: Usman

Usman — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:00:12 +0000

Guys,

Sorry I might be asking the obvious here but am I supposed to add something else with this code for it to work? when I added this code to my application.cfm file it just gave me a flat 404 error.

I’m new to this so some guidance would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

By: Bob L.

Bob L. — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:30:31 +0000

Guys,
This is a path issue. The script is modifying the base path.

A simple, but dirty, fix is to use absolute URL’s when referencing your images, css, scripts, etc.

This isn’t an ideal solution, but the SEF URL’s isn’t ideal either. If you are on your own windows box, try ISAPI rewrite.

Good luck.

By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:32:59 +0000

Thanks for the post. When I dropped this into my application.cfc it killed my css. Any thoughts?

By: James

James — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:57:39 +0000

@derek:
is your action page using the respective scope?
I don’t quite understand what you’re meaning by this…

By: ogletree

ogletree — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:38:04 +0000

I”m not a pro CF programmer. I just do searches on google to get syntax. I’m good at getting small things done with programming languages but nothing very complex. You could post your problem on a CF forum.

By: Al

Al — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:04:35 +0000

Hello,

I tried your script and it works except for my webpage template logo/images don’t show up. Any suggestions???