SEO'ed for the New Year! -- Part 2 :)

[Peter]

As an update to the release of the SEO (search engine optimization) modification on Dec 24, 2004, it seems google has already indexed the ILance demo site auctions... wow .. all I can say is this was fast! (about a week) ...

The results are on the very first page of google. ;)

Evidence:

Search Term: I require a hosting plan under $100/month
Google URL:
http://www.google.com/search?q=I+require+a+hosting+plan+under+%24100%2Fmonth&hl=en&lr=

ILance demo auction/site:
http://www.ilanceonline.com/project/I-require-a-hosting-plan-under-$100-month/52.html

I think it's safe to say "What are you waiting for??" click here to download and get this installed for the new year: http://www.ilance.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=143

This modification will also be available within version 3 .. (as an optional feature) since some ILance customers may want their marketplaces more private/localized (and not all over the web) :)

Peter

[Mike]

I was happy about the seo'ed update but later realize that a few softwares on my server was not working (I couldn't access them, I would get redirected to the marketplace). I contacted my hosting provider and they told me that when they remove the .htaccess (which is part of the seo'ed update, placed in the root folder of Ilance) they were able to run my softwares. I thought I might brought this to your attention.

Best Regards,
Michael

[Peter]

This is very interesting topic. After review of the .htaccess file, it seems there is no direct reference to other folders (ie: webalizer).

What we'll do now is figure a way to optimize the .htaccess file so ONLY the specific ILance files will be taken into consideration.

Thanks for the heads up on this.

-Peter

[Peter]

Okay, so if you are trying to avoid the same issues as ulocha, I think we can do something like this (before the other rewrite rules start [witin the .htaccess file]):

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/webalizer/

And for any other folders, the format is basically:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/folder/

-Peter

[Mike]

The update is not working for me. I put it everywhere possible, but it is not working.


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/webalizer/
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
## project_details.php ====================================================================== ====
RewriteRule ^project/([^/]+)/([^/]+)\.html$ /project_details.php?title=$1&id=$2 [NC,L] [T=application/x-httpd-php]
## show.php ====================================================================== ===============
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)\.html$ /show.php?title=$1&catid=$2 [NC,L] [T=application/x-httpd-php]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)\.html$ /show.php?title=$1&catid=$2&title2=$3&subcat=$4 [NC,L] [T=application/x-httpd-php]
## categories.php ====================================================================== =========
RewriteRule ^Buying/([^/]+)/([^/]+)\.html$ /categories.php?title=$1&catid=$2 [NC,L] [T=application/x-httpd-php]
RewriteRule ^Buying/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)\.html$ /categories.php?title=$1&catid=$2&title2=$3&subcat=$4 [NC,L] [T=application/x-httpd-php]