[stephen.friedrich]

I don't think so. As you may know google has been very hesitant (to say the least) in describing its bot, to make it harder to cheat.

[gagool]

I need this feature too, because in my case the URL will point to a user home and must be as easy as possible to remember.

It is also my opinion that slashes are more aesthetically pleasing than ampersands. Complete control of the URL can also make it easier to understand what it points to if formatted carefully.

http://cool.com/usersegment/username
looks much nicer and is easier to remember than
http://cool.com/userPage.seam?s=usersegment&u=username

Outgoing url rewriting seems hard to do with urlrewrite filter brcause the urls arent sent in one encode request.. so the url filter gets just parts of the url at different times.

[pmuir]

Christian has done a good job with the wiki getting the links into this format (e.g. http://in.relation.to

[ericjava]

So, these are rumors and hearsay posted on random weblogs. Is there any link, like, to Googles own description of its bot?

These are not rumors and hearsay, these are solidly documented facts. They are so well-known that they are common knowledge, and it may be hard to find exact references on them, but....

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9748779-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog

The #1 most important keywords are in the domain name. #2 are in the rest of the URL. This is proven and easily observable by people in the field.

In fact this forum would have a lot better placement if it had saner URLs for threads.

[christian.bauer]

solidly documented facts... it may be hard to find exact references

OK...

[csl]

solidly documented facts... it may be hard to find exact references

OK...

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=40349&ctx=related

Consider creating static copies of dynamic pages. Although the Google index includes dynamic pages, they comprise a small portion of our index. If you suspect that your dynamically generated pages (such as URLs containing question marks) are causing problems for our crawler, you might create static copies of these pages.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en-uk&answer=35769

If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e. the URL contains a "?" character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and few in number.

[skanky78]

Christian has done a good job with the wiki getting the links into this format (e.g. http://in.relation.to

how did he do it? is there any sourcecode available for this app?

cheers,
sven

[pmuir]

Yes, its in your download for Seam2, or in a CVS checkout, in the examples directory.