As most of my friends and family know, a little over a year ago, I decided to quit my job in the marketing industry, and start my own search engine optimization firm. At first it seemed like a crazy move. Steady work is hard to find, and if any one of my client’s decided to leave, then my dinner menu would most likely be that of a poor college student.
After receiving a positive response from my last post regarding the .htaccess mod_rewrite, I wanted to follow up with a post that contained a little more information on why the rewrite would be good to use, and a few descriptions about it’s syntax.
Over the past year, I’ve been researching various content management systems. The latest one that I chose to use is Joomla!. And all I can say is wow!
I decided put together a few example of rewrites that I use and like. BEWARE!!! Editing the htaccess file is not for the faint of heart. Making one small edit that incorrectly rewrites, or redirects, or changes any URL could kill your search engine rankings, and make your webmastering life miserable. Make sure you understand what you are doing, and test throughly. Be sure that no matter what no two URLs can access the same page, and make sure that any old URLs redirect to the new ones.
Beware that editing the .htaccess file is not for the faint of heart, and we recommend not editing the file unless you know what your doing.
