ASP.net directory

[strangerrr]

Hi everyone ... my programming team is planning to prepare web directory in asp.net ... I need to give them suggestion ... to make asp.net directory crawlable ... what things should be kept in mind to make it search engine friendly ...

Can anyone suggest me so that i can p*** it on to my programme team ...

[kevin]

Hi

It is fact that most search engines cannot or will not list any dynamic URLS. Dynamic URLs are said to contain elements such as ?, &, %, +, =, $, cgi-bin, .cgi. Hence, the pages which the hyperlinks point to will be ignored by the Web spider indexing the site.

It is very easy to create seacrh engine friendly URL using apache. In apache we can use MOD REWRITE Function in the .htaccess file.

To create search engine friendly URL using ASP.NET (C#. NET), I have want to share some ponints:-


Instead of sending parameters like
http://www.yourdomain.com?pageid=4 which is not search engine friendly

You want to change it to

http://www.yourdomain.com/page4.aspx

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In your Global.asax file, modify the Application_BeginRequest event as the following:


protected void Application_BeginRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e)
{

HttpContext incoming = HttpContext.Current;
string oldpath = incoming.Request.Path.ToLower();
string pageid; // page id requested

// Regular expressions to grab the page id from the pageX.aspx
Regex regex = new Regex(@"page(\d+).aspx", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase
| RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace);
MatchCollection matches = regex.Matches(oldpath);

If (matches.Count > 0)
{
// Extract the page id and send it to Process.aspx
pageid = matches[0].Groups[1].ToString();
incoming.RewritePath("Process.aspx?pageid=" + pageid);
}
else
{
// Display path if it doesn’t containt pageX.aspx
incoming.RewritePath(oldpath
}
}
In the above code, URLs of incoming requests are scanned to determine if the URL includes “pageX.aspx”, where X=1,2,3…n
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Next create a file Process.aspx which would display your web site content based on the pageid parameter (pageid=1…n) just like you would do normally.

Ex.

<%
string pageid = Request.QueryString["pageid"];
// Create the page content based on this pageid taken here
%>
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Issue a test request

http://www.yourdomain.com/page12.aspx

[strangerrr]

Thank you very much Jagan .... these information i showed to my programming team and its very useful for them ....

I would like to thank u once again ...

[kevin]

hi

you are always welcome when you need the help and we try to provide best in this disscussion forum

[strangerrr]

Hi Jagan .. finally we have launched web directory using your url rewrite idea... Thank you once again ... I would like to invite people to submit their site ..... its free ...

InfoWebWorld Web Directory

[kevin]

hi

I have visited directory and this looks good and i hope you will get good page rank soon. I hope that my this post will also help other seeking URL rewrite options for making search engine friendly directory in ASP.net