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What is the point of all the AJAX? All your content is virtually invisible to google, and given that you're looking for ways to get traffic i would have thought
by eli_s 18y ago
What is the point of all the AJAX? All your content is virtually invisible to google, and given that you're looking for ways to get traffic i would have thought natural search would have been very important.
I think you need to think a lot more about your urls - make them friendly for people and search engines, so instead of:
http://www.menkle.com/BrowseCategory.aspx?c=3 http://www.menkle.com/BrowseCategory.aspx?c=3
why not:
http://www.menkle.com/categories/electronics http://www.menkle.com/categories/electronics
and instead of:
http://www.menkle.com/ShowClassified.aspx?id=847 http://www.menkle.com/ShowClassified.aspx?id=847
why not:
http://www.menkle.com/items/dvd/american_pie_2 http://www.menkle.com/items/dvd/american_pie_2 or
http://www.menkle.com/washington/georgetown/dvd/american_pie_2 http://www.menkle.com/washington/georgetown/dvd/american_pie...
some well thought out url rewriting will go a long way + will give the benefit of obscuring the fact you're using asp, which might help with security.
- RobGR 18y agoThe human-parseable URLs would definitely be a big improvement. "Power Users" (i.e., nerds) of CL often type in the whole URL to the city / section that they want instead of going to the main page and clicking from there.
- colemaniac 18y agothat's an excellent point. we hadn't thought about making the urls more search engine friendly. thanks!