Comments on: SEO for Ruby on Rails

By: Marc minelli

Marc minelli — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:30:12 +0000

Thanks for the hint on redirect…i figured out how it is done with .htaccess though.

By: KK

KK — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:03:58 +0000

There must be something related with route.Any idea?

By: KK

KK — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:26:36 +0000

nice tips, is there any way to redirect page to index when user try to pass the non url
ex:when i type http://www.domain.com/hello/
no metod in controller appears
i just want to redirect instead of error

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:22:49 +0000

What kind of dog is in the picture?

By: ok

ok — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:28:54 +0000

how do you create a simple link to a url, in the list view.
e.g. a link to http://google.com.

By: Jeremy HUbert

Jeremy HUbert — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:25:20 +0000

Hey Tony. Great Tips. The 301 Redirect stuff really comes in handy.

As for rendering the partial, you could always do this:

(@request.user_agent.downcase =~ /googlebot/) ? ‘bot’ : ‘notabot’
%>

Yay for one line ruby.

By: SEO G

SEO G — Thu, 10 May 2007 16:32:12 +0000

thanks for the tips Tony. I also like the code highlighting on this page, makes it quite easy to read. Are you using standard CSS or a code highlighting plugin for wordpress?

Also, if you have any examples of how to do a match on a list of old URLs and then redirect them to the new structure that would be great. Perhaps something where one could load up the old URL paths in a database and for each entry tell it the new place to 301 redirect. For those who want to migrate an entire existing site over to a new clean url Rails site.

@Obie: Thanks for the link and explanation of Rails routing, though I had to grab it from the Google cache today.

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rubycorner.net - resources for ruby and rails development — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:28:02 +0000

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By: tony

tony — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:31:40 +0000

@topfunky – Yes that would be the proper way to do it. I was just demonstrating the code straight in the view for simplicity.

By: topfunky

topfunky — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 01:40:42 +0000

A better solution to user agent cloaking might be to write a helper that returns a boolean based on the user agent.

A custom helper like bot_visitor? could check for google, msn, etc. and consolidate more thorough logic without putting it in the view.