Special characters in URL
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Hello everybody,
my question focus on special parameters in URL. I i am working for a website that use a lot of special entities in their URLS. For instance:
www.mydomain.com/mykeyword1-mykeyword2%2C-1%2Cpage1.html
I am about to make 301 redirect rules for all these urls to clean ones. IE:
www.mydomain.com/mykeyword1-mykeyword2%2C-1%2Cpage1
would become:
www.mydomain.com/mykeyword1-mykeyword.htmlI just wanted to know if anybody has already done this kind of "cleanup" and if i could expect a positive boost or not.
Thanks
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Thanks for your answers,
Yes, i will use a regex because it is much simpler to make one rule for thousands of URLs than to have one specific rule for each URL. -
If it's an ecommerce site, then 301s may take forever. I agree with Shaun about the mod_rewrites.
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