Cruftless links

Roeg1 · 31 Aug 2011 at 12:09

Hi guys can anyone help me here, my friend as had a SEO company look at his website, hes asked me if I can help doing the updates that they have recommended as he cant get hold of the original web dev he used.

So far I've had np doing everything they have asked, but now I've come to

URL Structure
cruftless, links

I hold my hands up I had no idea what this was so I googled it and get linked to a program called rapidweaver. and from what I can see this is the only way to create a cruftless link ?
My question to you guys, do any of you use crufless links, do they help with SEO, and what's the best way for em to do this for him ? download that tool *not free* I'm a dreamweaver guy and have used that for ever. Can I do this in there ?

Help please

GravyMonster · 31 Aug 2011 at 12:48

I've never heard the term before, but after a google I now understand what it means.

It basically means that it would turn:

http://www.mydomain.com/section/index.html

into:

http://www.mydomain.com/section/

I don't think it's specific to RapidWeaver. It's a server side setting which can easily be achivied in IIS (a feature called 'default document') or in Apache (by htaccess I'd assume).

Roeg1 · 31 Aug 2011 at 13:14

Neither had I to be fair. Do you have a link to any info on how to do this. If its not to much trouble ?

Its not something I've ever done.

GravyMonster · 31 Aug 2011 at 14:22

What platform are you hosting on?

Roeg1 · 31 Aug 2011 at 15:01

Spunkey said:
What platform are you hosting on?

think there on a linux box

Xelene · 31 Aug 2011 at 20:01

a simple search & replace will fix the index.html thing, the more complex stuff is querystring - i.e http://example.com/page/index.html?foo=blah

Mod Rewrite on Apache can fix that (with some other search and replace and possibly some coding)

index.html shouldn't be a problem for SEO - but the query string junk is.