Search Engine Friendly Url

[pteerapr]

Hello,
Indexu is a good script. It will be perfect if you the developer teach us how to use dash in the url instead of underscore. Do a search for dash versus underscore seo in google and you will see that google favor dash more than underscore. Could you please tell us where to go to make change in the template. Make all underscore convert dash.

for example
(This is in the detail page.)
[http://www.domain.com/florida-lawyer...love__pa.html]
change to
[http://www.domain.com/florida-lawyer...-love-pa.html]

Thank you,
Pete

[dody]

It's SEOReplace function in /lib/misc.lib.php
You need to edit the str_replace at the buttom to be dash -

thanks for you suggession.

   // ----- SEOReplace -----

  function SEOReplace($string) {
    $seo_replacement_str_arr = array (
      ' ',
      '-',
      '/',
      '\\',
      ',',
      '#',
      ':',
      ';',
      '\'',
      '"',
      '[',
      ']',
      '{',
      '}',
      '|',
      '`',
      '~',
      '!',
      '@',
      '%',
      '$',
      '^',
      '&',
      '*',
      '=',
      '+'
    );
    return str_replace($seo_replacement_str_arr, '_', $string);
  } 
  

[pteerapr]

I got it. Awesome. I am soon to dominate my niche with unlimited license. 499 is nothing compare to how cool this script is.

[dody]

thanks!

[pteerapr]

Hello Dody,

I use 5.0.1 right now because there is a lot of customized code that I have in there that is why I have not upgraded. My problem is

This is the url that my mod rewrite change for detail.php.

http://www.lawyersomething.com/lawye...---wallsh.html

It is perfect and very search engine friendly. It show up on browse.php as a link to detail about different lawyer.

However, in hot.php and top_rated.php
it shows the link like this.
http://www.lawyersomething.com/detai...---wallsh.html

detail/{$link_id} is the default mod rewrite of indexu.
The link then become broken. I need them to show up consistently like in browse.php. The mod rewrite code that I customize

Please help. It is almost perfect now.

lawyersomething.com does not exist. It is just fictitous name. I am on my way to dominating lawyer related website with your script. Eventually will have all kind of lawyer in every state one domain per state.

[Frank71]

DODY ?
Please can you explain also how to rewrite special letter sin non english languages, by sample ÄÖÜßäöü to ae oe ue ss ????
This is still not possible...!

About the questions:

 <td valign="top"><b><a href="detail/<%$link_id%>/<%$title_mod%>.html" target="_parent"><%$title%></b></a></td> 
  

Shouldn't this solve the problem in hot_links_row.html ?

Regards
Frank

[dody]

Frank, this is a big problem. The non english characters should be urlencoded to work. Unless you could help me with a list of replacement characters.

Like this:
Ää = a
ö = o
ü = u