Search Engine Safe Urls seem to be a talked about topic these days… mod_rewrite being the de-facto for Apache users… there are a couple out there for IIS:<\/p>\n
urlrepl<\/a> — this is my favorite, mostly because it’s free. You can configure it either from a web browser or an ini file. Downsides: no regular expressions, configuration applies to all virtual servers defined in IIS.<\/p>\n Spider Safe Url<\/a> — this one is nice.. but in the little testing that I did with it, it killed pages that didn’t have url variables… so while this would work:<\/p>\n \/products\/detail.cfm\/id\/23\/category\/83\/<\/p>\n this will not:<\/p>\n \/products\/detail.cfm<\/p>\n which means that if you have single pages that don’t need url vars, you can’t use it.. Pete, am I wrong? Open source. Free.<\/p>\n IIS Rewrite<\/a> — looks like the same thing as urlrepl mentioned above, ‘xcept you have to pay for this one… [on second look, this one is really full featured, moreso than urlrepl]. It supports regular expressions, check out the docs<\/a>. $99 per server.<\/p>\n ISAPI_Rewrite<\/a> — This one is really nice as well.. $63 per server, $453 per organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Search Engine Safe Urls seem to be a talked about topic these days… mod_rewrite being the de-facto for Apache users… there are a couple out there for IIS: urlrepl — this is my favorite, mostly because it’s free. You can configure it either from a web browser or an ini file. Downsides: no regular expressions, … Continue reading Search Engine Safe Urls<\/span>