I would appreciate you advice on how to incorporate parameters into SEO Friendly URLs
We have decided to have the "techie" parameters first, followed by the "SEO Slug"
\product\ABC123\fly-your-own-helicopter
much like S.O. - if the SEO Slug changes, or is truncated, or missing, we still have the Product and ABC123 parameters; various articles say that having such extra data doesn't harm SEO ranking.
We need to have additional parameters; we could use "-" to separate parameters as it makes them look similar to the SEO Slug, or we could/should use something else?
\product\ABC123-BOYTOY-2\boys\toys\fly-your-own-helicopter
This is product=ABC123, in Category=BOYTOY and Page=2.
We also want to keep the hierarchy as flat as possible, and thus I think:
\product-ABC123-BOYTOY-2\boys\toys\fly-your-own-helicopter
would be better - one level less.
We have a number of "zones", e.g.
\product-ABC123\seo-slug-for-product
\category-BOYTOY\seo-slug-for-category
\article-54321\terms-and-conditions
it would help us a lot if we could just user our 5 digit Page ID number instead, so these would become
\12345-ABC123\seo-slug-for-product
\23456-BOYTOY\seo-slug-for-category
\54321\terms-and-conditions
(Products & Categories have a number of different Page IDs for different templates, this style would take us straight to the right one)
I would appreciate your insight into what parameter separators to use, and if the leading techi-data is going work well for us.
In case relevant:
Classic ASP application on IIS7 + MSSQL2008
Product & Category codes contain A-Z, 0-9, "_" only.
