- Type of Feedback: Something to think about
Since vanity urls for forums requires IIS7, I propose a low tech method that will work for those of us on IIS6.
Simply change the URL structure a bit. Currently a topic URL looks like this:
/Forums/aft/3298
just add / + URLFriendly(topictitle) so that it looks like this:
/Forums/aft/3298/topic-title-goes-here
the current AF will use this properly without any code changes - at least it works on my site. All you need to do is make sure that links to the topic get the new, URL friendly title text appended. Presumably you already have a function to do this for the IIS7 handler.
So while it keeps the "aft/####" in the url, it is very SEO friendly with the nice topic text following after. This is a win win all around I think.
P.S.> Even anchor tags should work when appended ie: /Forums/aft/3298/track-share-update#3345