Hi Folks,
This is my sample url: http://xxxx.com/product_details?category_id=produce&product_id=fresh-georgia-peaches–17
The highlighted (red) things are my params.
How can i hide those params in this url.It should be SEO friends url.
Please advise…
Yes, am asking how can i optimize this url as a friendly url??
Yes, am asking how can i optimize this url as a friendly url??
i think you need to use nested resources. I'm assuming that a product belongs to a category so you can use
xxxx.com/produce/fresh-georgia-peaches--17/product_details or xxxx.com/categories/produce/products/fresh-georgia-peaches--17/product_details
The link I sent tell you how to do it. Depending on how you have your actions setup depends on how easy it is. If your actions are designed to handle both category_id and product_id you need not change your code at all because rails builds it the same way to your action so now you need to just add the get in there but it's better you read the link I sent and learn than me tell you because then you learn nothing and I'm not your developer I'm only here to guide you.
use friendly_id gem.
Jordan is saying that the above URL is just as SEO Friendly as the below URL.
SEO Friendly != Looks nice to humans.
This article has the gist of it: http://gabesumner.com/are-search-engine-friendly-urls-really-search-engine-friendly
It is not SEO unfriendly… what you’re asking for is a human friendly URL.
Yes, am asking how can i�optimize this url as a friendly url??�
http://xxxx.com/product_details?category_id=produce&product_id=fresh-georgia-peaches–17
That is not an SEO unfriendly URL.
The highlighted (red) things are my params.
Yes, am asking how can i optimize this url as a friendly url??
i think you need to use nested resources. I’m assuming that a product belongs to a category so you
can use
I think the OP wants to hide the params completely, could he not create a route that uses POST instead of GET?
Paul
Why would you use post instead of get? There is no need to change anything really (if your code is designed right at least) because all you would need to do is "/uri/:category_id/:product_id" => "controller#action" and it will route it and setup the params the same way it would with query strings. The problem comes in with the fact that you can kill your SEO by doing that because you provide no useful information for the search engine, you actually strip some context but that's not my concern it's yours.