Updating DNN to friendly URL’s without hurting your SEO
I manage several DotNetNuke sites and noticed I had not enabled friendly URL’s on one. This is a typical DNN URL…which is not very intuitive
http://www.mainesgna.org/AboutMSGNA/SGNAMembershipBenefits/tabid/67/Default.aspx
Using the Friendly URL feature this is the same page’s URL:
http://www.mainesgna.org/AboutMSGNA/SGNAMembershipBenefits.aspx
I wanted to changed the URL scheme, but I didn’t want lose my search rankings so needed to create a rewrite rule to inform search engines with a 302 redirect that the pages have a new home. I use the Helicon product ISAPII Rewrite.
Here are the steps to do this.
- Enable Friendly URL’s in Web.Config. Do this by adding the urlFormat attribute of HumanFriendly to the friendlyUrl node:
- Create a Rewrite Rule for isapii Rewrite 2
RewriteCond Host: www.yourdomain.com RewriteRule ^(.*)/tabid/d+/Default.aspx$ $1.aspx [I,RP,L]
- The Syntax for Isappi Rewrite 3 is:
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Host} ^www.yourdomain.com$ RewriteRule ^(.*)/tabid/d+/Default.aspx$ $1.aspx [NC,L,R=301]
If your not using the lite (free) version of Helicon, and your rewrite file is in the DotNetNuke web root, you can skip the ReWriteCond line.
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