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Etienne
Etienne

Reputation: 7201

Normalizing my webpage URL for SEO

I am using ASP.NET with VB.NET

I have realize that SEO does not like my page URL's that contain questions marks such as this.........

http://www.erate.co.za/CompanyProfile.aspx?ID=112

Is it possible to change my URL from that to say

http://www.erate.co.za/CompanyProfile/USA

Is this even possible? If so how would i or can i do this in VB.NET? C# code will also do, i will convert it myself to VB.NET

Thanks in advance!

EDIT:

Note that my URL with the Question Mark in it is reading a record from the DB with the ID of 112

Upvotes: 0

Views: 827

Answers (3)

Alexandre Brisebois
Alexandre Brisebois

Reputation: 6743

this is part of .Net 3.5 and is the same mechanism used by MVC

This makes your life easy, due to the fact that everything is held in the HttpContext.CurrentContext.Items[""]

I have adapted this code for a few project where I have an XML configuration file. I then use this file to build the RouteCollection. This code has also been easily extended to handle 301 redirects for SEO.

This method is also loaded once in your AppPool and removes the need to parse xml files and configurations for every call. This so far has been the best solution for me performance wise.

If you need any assistance please let me know. I will gladly lend a hand.

Upvotes: 0

anishMarokey
anishMarokey

Reputation: 11397

It is possible by using MVC.I done it with C#,I think VB.NET also supports MVC.You want the URL as stackoverflow right ? .Stackoverflow is developed in MVC architecture.

Edit : you can accomplish the same by ASP.NET Routing also

Upvotes: 0

Pete OHanlon
Pete OHanlon

Reputation: 9146

What you are talking about is called URL Rewriting, and Scott Guthrie has a handy article on this here.

Upvotes: 1

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