Yahoo Offers Dynamic URL Rewriting
In just another case of “listening to the crowd” Yahoo introduced this week a great feature to webmasters - dynamic URL rewriting. The feature, which is still in beta, will allow webmasters the ability to alert Yahoo! of the dynamic parameters in URLs that they’d like Yahoo! to ignore, who will, in turn, automatically rewrite accordingly.
Parameters in URL have been a problem since the old days of session_id added automatically by servers and which search engines have learned to deal with. However, as the engines are trying to fight duplicate content some parameters, when added, may cause just that and the elimination of such parameters can ease the situation on some webmasters.
Yahoo posted directions for setting your own dynamic rewrite here and some of the benefits, as mentioned are:
* A more efficient crawl of your site, with fewer duplicate URLs being crawled.
* Better and deeper site coverage, as we’ll be able to use our crawler capacity to find and index more new content on your site.
* More unique content discovered, as we’ll handle more dynamic parameters in your URLs (if you remove the content-neutral dynamic parameters).
* Fewer chances of crawler traps, or web page sets that can cause an infinite number of requests or a poorly constructed crawler to crash.
* Cleaner and easier-to-read URLs displayed in the search results.
* Better site ranking due to reduced fragmentation of links and anchor text to your site’s pages.
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Sep 26, 2007 at 9:26 am
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