Categories not being created

[dwinkjr]

My company recently installed indexu on our webserver and we are working to set up a new business directory. The problem I am having is when I add Catergories via the admin window, they are created within the SQL database but the directories are not created on the site. So when you click a category on the index page you get a 404 error. Any ideas what may be going wrong?

Thanks!

[dody]

It seems your server does not support mod-rewrite that is used by indexu. You can disable it but it will be a great disadvantage on SEO term.

Please let me know your server environtment. Is it windows with IIS ?

[dwinkjr]

Yes it is a Windows Server running IIS.

[dody]

How is the detail page and tag page? Did you get 404 error too ?

[dwinkjr]

Yes it was a 404 error, we disabled Mod-rewrite and it works fine now.

However, I would be interested to know what your concerns are with SEO?

[dody]

The url is become something like:

browse.php?cat=394
detail.php?linkid=3902
browsetag.php?tag=gatgets

Compare with:

www.domain.com/travel/asia/indonesia/
www.domain.com/res/3902/the-great-bali-travel-advanture.html
www.domain.com/tag/gatgets

When you have mod-rewrite enable, I believe search engines will see the url more meaning full, it will give more weight and priority on search result position.

Imagine you have 500 categories and 10000 links. It's all have title in url.