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Are Links SQL web sites search engine friendly? Please explain?

Yes, by default Links SQL creates static html pages in a nice search engine friendly format (where the category name is part of the URL):

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...L/Globals/index.html

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Are the dynamic pages search engine friendly?

By default no, but if you are using Apache, it is trivial to make a dynamic page search engine friendly with static URL's. All you do is make an empty directory, and in that directory place an .htaccess file with:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*) /cgi-bin/links/page.cgi?g=$1 [L]

and that's it. Now when you go to that directory, your URL will look like http://example.com/directory/cat1/cat2/, but in reality, that will be running http://example.com/cgi-bin/links/page.cgi?g=cat1/cat2. The search engines or your visitors never see the second URL though.

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Will I have the ability to use Meta tags with dynamic and static pages I.E. keywords, descriptions?

Yes, that's not a problem.

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I am wanting to write articles, reviews, provide different insights concerning the industry my site will be focusing on. I want these to be included on the pages but separate somehow form the links and sponsor links. I would also like these to context sensitive to the categories? Is this possible and what are your suggestions for such a thing.?

Links SQL has built in support for reviews that will be displayed separately. It's also possible to add new content on separate pages. I can send you a URL to a site as an example if you are interested.

Cheers,

Alex
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Thread Important Presale Questions Part 2 rlesley 4055 Feb 12, 2004, 5:09 PM
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pugdog 3967 Feb 13, 2004, 8:11 AM
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Alex 3960 Feb 13, 2004, 9:26 AM
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rlesley 3958 Feb 13, 2004, 9:34 AM