I'm pretty sure there is a hack that can do it, but I don't have a link to it at hand. I suggest using the search feature with whatever keywords might be appropriate and the author name "isaac" and PROBABLY select the plugins and hacks forum. Isaac made up lots of hacks that dealt with this type of issue, but hacks aren't always in the 'correct' forum. And lets hope the people who know all the .htaccess tricks come along because I'm sure that's how Isaac did it.

First, not that it's a big deal, but the title of this topic seems redundant (SEO Optimized).

Aren't you really saying "Search Engine Optimization Optimized"?

Anyway ... I didn't think that the URL was particularly important for search engines. Aren't "today's spiders" looking for relevant content?

I don't really know, I'm just asking. If you have any links that would help educate me, that would be great, because I'm sitting here believing that it's CONTENT that matters and that URLs are irrelevant.

Thanks.

(Our category links appear similar to yours, despite the "nice" url's we've deployed for permalinks).

-stk :D

stk wrote:

Aren't you really saying "Search Engine Optimization Optimized"?

correct you are :lol:

If you have any links that would help educate me, that would be great, because I'm sitting here believing that it's CONTENT that matters and that URLs are irrelevant.

I have read some posts in the german abakus forum (http://www.abakus-internet-marketing.de/) which is the german meeting-point for SEOs.

It seems, that at least google has something in their algorithms that assigns a higher relevance to a page that has the keywords in URL and in the content.

That means, if two pages has the same relevance regarding to the content, the page with the keyword in the URL would be shown before the other one.

That could make a big difference for the first two entries in the list ;)

Marian

OKAY ... let's assume that you're correct ... in an equal race, it's the URL that matters.

(Personally, I'm going for content ... but I hear you).

So ... I'm thinking that [url=http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=4459] this thread [/url] might apply.

I wish you luck, URL-boy.

-stk (content-boy) :D

relevant content is important, as always, but search keywords in urls are also a fairly important component in seo. It gets less important the further into the url you go. ie:
www.extremely-important.org/medium-important/less-important.php

Actually, that topic is debatable... some people say anything after the domain name is equal weight and some even say that the actual page filename is more important than a folder name above it. It's pretty much accepted, though, that they all affect ranking enough that you shouldn't ignore them. That's what I like about putting the title of the post.

When you use the pretty urls - does the category name show up in the url? I mean would it say www.blog222.com/thiscategory3/this-post-title/ or would it just say www.blog222/3/this-post-title/ ?