keywords in URLS - Asking SEO guru / Php coder.

[marcus76]

hi,

 

I have a question to php people / SEO gurus.

 

Is the format of the following URL valid?

 

http://www.domain.com/index.php?enter+keywords+here&cPath=62

 

Is it breaking any php / MySql rules, maybe search engines dont like it? The link works on my site (substituting the domain.com for mine), i just wanted to know if this would be suitable for using to pass keywords in URL's? and as opposed to the default standard below:

 

http://www.domain.com/index.php?cPath=62

 

Thanks

 

Marcus

[stevel]

I would think it should have keyword= before the keywords, but otherwise that's valid. What do you want to do with this? Bear in mind that search engines tend to dislike the same content at different URLs - they think you're spamming the index.

[Guest]

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...search,ultimate

 

The contribution in the link above may be of some use to you.

[marcus76]

yeah i looked at that contrib and decided against implementing...

 

i rank quite well for alot of my keywords, but i notice the URL's are in the format of :

 

http://www.domain.com/index.php?enter+keywords+here&cPath=62

 

so i thought why fix what's not broken....

 

Steve,

 

I've been told:

 

keyword= before the keywords

 

and

 

kw= before the keywords

 

which is it? you know?

 

cheers

 

Marcus

[stevel]

In this context, "keyword" is whatever you want it to be so that the form processing can retrieve the value. It could be foobar= if that's what you want. The word "keyword" has no special significance.