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Eicra records are stored in a database. When you wish to read an article, Eicra.com sends a request to the database to get this record for you. This request is usually sent as a query string, and in its native form it looks something like:
http://yoursitename.com/kb/index.php?view=entry&entryID=90.
This works well to get the record back, but most search engines, Google excepted, will not index pages with question marks (?) or ampersands (&) in the name.
To get around this, we use a search engine friendly URL. This converts the query to something more like:
1. http://yoursitename.com/article /entry/90
2. http://yoursitename.com/article /Search-engine-friendly-URLs_90.html
which contains only characters that search engines recognize, and therefore will the record will be found by the search engine.
Not only that, when sending a link to someone else, it makes a lot more sense, and is a lot less error prone, to send a link http://yoursitename.com/kb/entry/90 than to sendhttp://yoursitename/kb/index.php?view=entry&entryID=90.
How do I set up a search engine friendly URL?
- Log onto your application as an administrator
- Choose the Global Settings menu on top
- Click on the Edit Global Settings => Find Email Configuration tab => Turn on / off SEO linke.
- Go to the Titles / Meta section and choose an appropriate option from the Search Engine Friendly URL drop down list.
Note:
- For now "Search Engine Friendly URL" works only on Apache web server with mod_rewrite enabled.
