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<h2>Using ADP to Create Search Engine Friendly URL</h2>
<p>This documentation is explaining what is ADP, how it works, and more
importantly how to use it. See also <a href="readme.htm">readme first</a>.</p>
<p>Table of Content:</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="#1">What is ADP?</a></li>
<li><a href="#2">Three Level of ADP</a></li>
<li><a href="#3">Which Should I Use, ADP 0, 1 or 2?</a></li>
<li><a href="#4">I see the index.php still using query string?</a></li>
<li><a href="#5">How do I use ADP?</a></li>
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<h3><a name="1"></a>What is ADP?</h3>
<p>Search engines (google, yahoo, msn, etc) crawl the web to find your site.
Unfortunately, they don't like<br>
dynamic pages (URL), which are marked by query string (? and =), such as
http://www.myweb.tld/detail.php?link_id=5</p>
<p>ADP or Advanced Dynamic Page try to solve this problem by converting
dynamic URL into 'static-look' URL, such as
http://www.myweb.tld/detail-link_id-5 which is search engine friendly.</p>
<p style="font-size:small">We don't think a non-SEF URL is the end of the world, because if more than 50% of your pages are listed
in a search engine, it is more than enough. Never depend on search engine to attract your visitors!</p>
<h3><a name="2"></a>Three Level of ADP <font color="#FF0000">(important!)</font></h3>
<ul>
<li>ADP 0 doesn't do anything, and leave anything as is.<br>
</li>
<li>ADP 1 converts<br>
http://www.myweb.tld/detail.php?link_id=5<br>
into<br>
http://www.myweb.tld/detail.php/link_id/5<br>
<br>
This should be friendly enough to some search engines. But still most
search engines doesn't like it, resulting still lower page rank.<br>
</li>
<li>ADP 2 converts<br>
http://www.myweb.tld/detail.php?link_id=5<br>
into<br>
http://www.myweb.tld/detail-link_id-5<br>
<br>
This should be the most friendly URL to most (if not all) search engines.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="3"></a>Which should I use ADP 0, 1 or 2?</h3>
<p>We recommend you to use ADP 2.0 to maximize your page rank. However ADP 2
only works in Apache web server, please ask your server provider to confirm
this. ADP 1 may not work on some server configuration.</p>
<p>If you encounter any problem in ADP 2.0, try using ADP 1.0, if problem
still exists you will have to disable ADP!</p>
<h3><a name="4"></a>I see the index.php still using query string?</h3>
<p>Yes. Some pages still using the old query string, such as index.php,
rate.php, best.php, etc. You don't want this page turned to 'static-look'.
But if you insist to, you can edit 'includes/404_alias.php', and follow
inline documentation.</p>
<h3><a name="5"></a>How do I use ADP? <font color="#FF0000">(very important!)</font></h3>
<ol>
<li>Install mBlog.</li>
<li>Go to admin CP > configuration > general. </li>
<li>Choose an ADP level.</li>
<li>Save.</li>
<li>To use <u>ADP 2</u>:<ul>
<li>Rename file: _htaccess to .htaccess (notice it is <b>dot</b>htaccess)</li>
<li>You may need to edit .htaccess to match your installation folder.
You can edit it using text editor.</li>
</ul>
</li>
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