Friendly URL

[tomaz77]

Can be Friendly URL installed on a custom made jobsite using mod rewrite / apache without any big interference to the system itself?

Thank you.

[Keszi]

Hi,

Getting your URLs to be a little more "SEO friendly" (let's name it like that) is all about URL rewriting, which can be quite a headache if not implemented well.

I have done this on a Wordpress website back a few years ago and kind of freaked out when I saw how many 404 errors I have got.

The solution to avoid that is to implement URL rewriting and 301 redirects at the same time.

My problem was that I had only done the URL rewriting, and have seen from Google Webmaster tools the erros, then I have started to search for a solution and I found that I need to redirect all my old URLs to the new destination. Then I have resubmitted a sitemap to Google and the problem was fixed.

I hope you can learn from my experience.

Good luck!

Istvan