Hi,

I have a htaccess file set up to redirect some of my pages. For instance when I use the word "product" in my url I redirect it to my page: products.php with a parameter defining which product is linked to:

http://www.mysite.com/product/someproduct.html would link to internally to http://www.mysite.com/products.php?p=someproduct

I do the a similar thing for a site I run using ASP with my web.config

However, when I check my stats in ms aca I get the page as http://www.mysite.com/products.php?p=someproduct

Is there anyway to change this?

thanks in advance!!

That's wierd!!! I use htaccess redirects aswell and get my pages to list just like the link displayed in the url. Are you sure some inbound links are not still linking to your urls with parameters? Are you rewriting urls or are you using 301 redirects (I don;t know if this would make a difference?!?!?)

I think MS aca handles urls quite well. The do at least show parameters behind inbound referrer urls, where Google does not. This helps me finding the pages my inbound links are on much faster. I now don't have to search forums for a post that contains a keyword that would refer to one of my pages. This saves me loads of time....

Anyway getting side tracked here. Could you be more specific?

Ah.... stupid me!!! now you said that, about the inbound referals linking to my old parameter-filled urls I understand.
I checked some backlinks and now I understand what was going wrong. I only changed the htaccess and never dealed with referals to the old pages, which still provide me with a lot of traffic. Any ideas on how I could get them to link ot the new SEO friendly pages??

THANKS FOR THIS!!!!!

You could set up 301 redirects on your old parameter filled urls, to send the user and google to the right page. Also your pagerank will then eventually be passed on.