SEO Friendly URLs

SEO friendly URLs take ugly PHP based web addresses, and attempt to make them not only look more appealing towards your users, but also to give the search engines relevant information in the URL to help increase your search engine rankings.

Here are some examples, first a regular Arcadem URL: http://arcadempro.com/demo/flash-arcade-game.php?gameid=712&gamename=Cannon%20Ball

With SEO friendly URLs turned on, this now becomes: http://arcadempro.com/demo/712-Cannon-Ball.html

The end result is a URL that is not only more readable by the search engines, but also looks more appealing to your visitors as well.

Common Problems

SEO friendly URLs are accomplished through the .htaccess file, which means that this feature is only supported on Apache servers, or IIS servers that have an .htaccess mod installed. In addition, if your ‘Path to Arcadem’ is set incorrectly you will experience 500 Internal Server Error error messages.

The path to Arcadem should allows be relative to your website’s root, and must contain both an opening and trailing forward slash. Let’s review several examples of the correct path to use in different circumstances.

Primary Domain:

• YOUR URL: http://www.example.com/
• SET PATH: /

Sub Domain:

• YOUR URL: http://subdomain.example.com/
• SET PATH: /

Installed to folder

• YOUR URL: http://www.example.com/arcadem/
• SET PATH: /arcadem/

Installed to folder on a subdomain

• YOUR URL: http://subdomain.example.com/arcadem/
• SET PATH: /arcadem/

Installed to a deep folder:

• YOUR URL: http://www.example.com/blah/2/646/testing/arcadem/
• SET PATH: /blah/2/646/testing/arcadem/