In terms of SEO, how good is ASP?

Lazlo90 · #1 (**permalink**) 03-22-09, 19:15

I know that PHP scripts can be made more SEO friendly via the htaccess mod_rewrite feature but I don't think Windows supports that. So what can be done to make ASP scripts more SEO friendly or are they already search engine friendly "out of the box"?

I'm talking about URLs like about-us.asp vs. about-us.html which originally might have been something like page2305.php etc.

Rocky · #2 (**permalink**) 03-24-09, 02:14

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Originally Posted by Lazlo90

I know that PHP scripts can be made more SEO friendly via the htaccess mod_rewrite feature but I don't think Windows supports that. So what can be done to make ASP scripts more SEO friendly or are they already search engine friendly "out of the box"?

I'm talking about URLs like about-us.asp vs. about-us.html which originally might have been something like page2305.php etc.

You can have ISAPI_ReWrite installed on Windows servers & have the URLs rewritten as the same way mod_rewrite does on Apache.. IIS 6.0 support Isapi_Rewrite 3 which rewrites PHP, ASP & other extensions to whatever you wish

angelad · #3 (**permalink**) 04-20-09, 18:32

I considered doing this, but then gave up

BodShane · #4 (**permalink**) 04-21-09, 11:12

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Originally Posted by angelad

I considered doing this, but then gave up

Ok, why did you give up ?

I believe you should give it a try once more and let us know the issues you facing and we will get them sorted for you.

Regards,

Shane Phillips

userdan · #5 (**permalink**) 06-01-09, 11:37

Is ISAPI Rewrite installed free of charge? Or do you charge for it? I hope you install it free, or at least include it in your package prices (discounted, I hope). I looked it up and it's very impressive from what I could see. Apparently it's fully compatible with Apache's mod_rewrite. You could even just copy over the htaccess files!