SEO Tycoon

**imported_Dan** · 10-15-2006, 09:04 PM

Hey Guys

Small question, is there anyway to moreve all capital letter urls from search engines whilst making them redirect to noncap versions?

domain.com/Sample/One_Two.html to domain.com/sample/one_two.html

**robhustle** · 10-16-2006, 02:02 AM

yes, but the implementation depends on what kind of backend software you are using. The general method for doing this involves scripting your 404 page so that it parses out the extra path information for the stuff not found (ie, /Sample/One_Two.html) and then either performs a lookup or, in your case, a string manipulation (ie, lower(url)) and then redirects to the new URL.

But, without knowing what kind of server side scripting you have going on, its hard to say exactly. At any rate, that is the general technique. It can also be used to provide search engine friendly URL's when you have dynamic sites. PM me if you have more specific questions.

rob

**imported_illusion** · 10-16-2006, 06:25 AM

PHP let's you do this

strtolower()

**imported_Dan** · 10-16-2006, 07:20 AM

Let me rephrase,

My URLs are already displayed as lowercase, but my old version was using capital urls.. which are still getting indexed by google. Is there anyway to remove them from google? I wont be able to do it manually as theres well over 4000.

**GeorgeB** · 10-16-2006, 09:54 AM

301 (permanently moved) redirect all capital URLS to the lowercase version and google will automatically transfer search weight to the new URLs.

- George

**bluesaga** · 10-16-2006, 01:30 PM

use .htaccess to redirect the urls to a 404 page, grab the path (/blah/blah.html) and redirect to the strtolower'd version. So those 4000 pages, arent as much work as you had previously thought eh?

**imported_Dan** · 10-16-2006, 02:26 PM

So your saying rewrite EACH and EVERY url? surely there has to be a quicker way? no? yes?

**Elemak** · 10-16-2006, 03:01 PM

Sure, here's the pseudocode:

if (Request.ServerVariables("PATH_INFO")<>lcase(reque st.servervariables("PATH_INFO")) then response.redirect lcase(request.servervariables("PATH_INFO"))

**bluesaga** · 10-19-2006, 08:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dan

So your saying rewrite EACH and EVERY url? surely there has to be a quicker way? no? yes?

Im saying redirect every 404 to a special page, and then on that page have a test to see if the path to the page was lowercase, if it wasnt then redirect to the lowercase version.
THIS is what i mean, and its pretty simple to do

**moneymaker1** · 10-25-2006, 03:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dan

So your saying rewrite EACH and EVERY url? surely there has to be a quicker way? no? yes?

I think you can use wild card on your server side scripting right?

**imported_WillB** · 10-26-2006, 07:20 AM

Can't you use an htaccess with regular expressions to force all URLs to lower case before they are loaded?

Here's one discussion I found: http://www.velocityreviews.com/forum...redirects.html

Which talks about mod_speling and mod_rewrite, including mentioning this page:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/pla...dows.html#cust

(about halfway down the page).