Paying for a Mod Rewrite

I am looking for Mod Rewrite to be used on a forum on one of my sites. It is basically over my head at first glance and although I know if I dug into it I could figure it out, I just can't put the time into it.

What would be a fair price to pay to have something like this done for me? I'm not sure if this is a "Depends" question or if it is pretty standard.

What would the person doing it need access to in order for things to go smoothly? Are there any other answers I should have ready so there isn't a lot of time emailing back and forth?

Feel free to PM me if you want to make a offer personally or get more info but PLEASE do not post "Just PM'd you" or "I can do it", I'm sure there are other posters here that would be interested in opinions so feel free to post a FULL response

Cheers

Hi Jason

This is easy.

They wouldn't need access to your site.
mod_rewrite is a module that is enabeled to allow re writting of URLs.

All they would need is to create a file with the neccessary code - more like declarations than proper coding.

It is not more than 1 hours work.

Should be no problm at all.

Be careful with the naming - take your time and match the new URLs to your targeted keywords.

Tstolber,
That is not true at all. It totally depends on what forum software you are using. FOr instance if you wanted the mod_Rewrite at www.seo-guy.com/forum/ then you actually need to physically hack the templates

We do offer this service for most forum types Jason - perhaps you could PM me what software you are planning on using and the forum URL we can work something out for you

SEO Guy's Mod for the forums is great. I personally and professionally recommend it. And yes, mod_rewrite contains adding code to the .htaccess file as well as changing the template files to change the way URL's exist on the frontend interface.

SEO Guy

I am not sure how it is not true?

If you have one URL and you want it re writting to something else then you just need to say so in .htaccess

It may be that with some forums there are certain things that need to be done but I don't think my statement can be classed as not true?

Jason has actualy got a windos server running IIS so he is going for ISAPI for rewritting. I don't have any experience with this but it looks pretty similar.

Cheers

Trevor Stolber

i think he just means in order to urls on the webpages to work properly they need to be re-written to reflect the rewrite in the .htaccess

Ahh Cheers

I get it.
Yes that would be the case.
For this example though the articles are in an xml file and are called in a very logical way.
This would make it easy for a regular expression to handle all the artivles pulled from the XML.

The one thing we are going to look into which is a bit tricky is trying to write a regular expression that can pull titles to make it more SEO friendly.
This may require the forum template to be jigged or hacked about but it will be owrth it in the long run for ease of maintenance and SEO bennefit!

TS What I meant that was not true is that you said that we would not have to have any ftp or access to any other file then the .htaccess or in this case rewrite.ini file in order to have the FORUM be search engine friendly.

The fact is you can do the rewrite in one simple set of rules for instance I just did it for our new site www.mortgage-webmasters.com/forum last night and teh rewrite looks like


And then in hte rewrite ANI you rewrite the URL's to pass keyword loaded URL strings such as


However if we did not actually hack the files to produce links that correspond with the rewrite links then noone would ever see the product of the rewrite

Yeah I get that now!

Bit of a mis understanding.

Cheers