How to Create dummy directory for SEO ranking

[gnomeplanet]

Hi - I am a travel photographer as well as a php/mysql web developer. I have a number of images with Getty, and was interested to see that when displaying one of my images, they use a directory name based on the image title, then the image id number in the web URL, presumably for SEO ranking purposes.

URL example:

http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/ph...aphy/148624493

They obviously don't have a separate directory for each of their milllions of images, so I assume the middle named directory is a dummy, created on the fly, and bypassed on the fly when the viewer wants to see the '148624493' image.

My question: how is this done, and could I do something similar on my own php/mysql site? Any tips, hints, guides or links to descriptions or tutorials will be much appreciated. I have done a lot of searching but come up with nothing useful so far.

Regards, Tim Makins, currently travelling in Laos.
http://www.gnomeplanet.com/gallery.php

[Dasher]

You can do those things with .htaccess and php code in the page. The "directory" is really a variable for the image title, and the number of course is the image number. .htaccess can parse the long directory name to a variable such as;

http://www.mypage.com/a-long-title-goes-here/12345678 becomes

http://www.mypage.com/?title=a-long-...image=12345678

.htaccess file code might be something like

#RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/([0-9]+)$ /index.php?title=$1&image=$2 [L,nc]

[gnomeplanet]

Thanks very very much for your reply, Dasher - I'll do some more research now I know what area to look in, and see how it all goes together.

Is there actually a name for this kind of processing? When searching I was really stumped to think of suitable keywords.

Tim, currently in Laos.

[donatello]

Query String Appends

or

QSA


http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html

Look at my posts from today, I just answered someone else's question about QSA earlier...

[ksushil970]

You can do those things with .htaccess and php code in the page. The "directory" is really a variable for the image title, and the number of course is the image number. .htaccess can parse the long directory name to a variable such as;

http://www.mypage.com/a-long-title-goes-here/12345678 becomes

http://www.mypage.com/?title=a-long-...image=12345678

.htaccess file code might be something like

#RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/([0-9]+)$ /index.php?title=$1&image=$2 [L,nc]

This is the right solution of your problem, i also use this method for generating a directory for higher ranking of my seo products.

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