Search Engine Friendly URL's

[Hawaii Web Group LLC]

Does anyone know when URL's will be Search Engine Friendly, or is there a way to do it now?

I asked this a year ago, and they hadn't set it up yet. Ning is missing a huge opportunity here.

[Atamaii.com]

second that emotion....its like the best example of a blog in the world (W....) is right there to study. I would be there instead of here if Wordpress.com integrated photos, video, and a forum...

Hire some of their people for goodness sake...

[Almir]

Ning is very SE unfriendly

[Hawaii Web Group LLC]

Glad to see I'm not the only one that thinks this is long in the making.

[Atamaii.com]

Roger that, and not just the page names....code is slapped on all over the place.

One thing they got right...fixed URL's.

[Ernie H.]

Hey there,

This has already occurred in a release last October:
http://blog.ning.com/2008/10/tonights-release-is-live-2.html

Content (forums, photos, videos, etc) created after that push on centralized social networks will have the new URL naming conventions (which is what makes a URL more search engine friendly) - but previous URLs won't be renamed automatically for bookmarking reasons.

Example, the following URL has the correct naming structure:
http://www.hawaiiphotography.com/forum/topics/looking-for-photos-of...

While this URL doesn't due to the fact that the thread was around before launch:
http://www.hawaiiphotography.com/forum/topics/2128035:Topic:275

Thanks,
- Ernie

[Hawaii Web Group LLC]

Ahhh! Is there anyway to manually change old URL's to a Search Friendly format? I have thousands of pages that I'd love to have indexed.

[Hawaii Web Group LLC]

Also, this is not the case for new photos. Both the photo page and the full screen shot are unfriendly. For indexing in Google for photos, that would be a BIG help. Otherwise, there's really little reason to be posting photos if it won't help bring people in. Please advise.

[Ernie H.]

Actually, it looks alright to me:
http://www.hawaiiphotography.com/photo/maui-wedding-photographer-7?...

That photo is from May 3rd. That said, it always takes a little bit of time for a particular document to fully propogate. As far as manually changing old URLs to a Search Friendly format, you can always request it as a feature request at the Help Center at http://help.ning.com .

Thanks,
- Ernie

[Hawaii Web Group LLC]

?context=latest

That's the part that isn't friendly. Also, when it comes to the enlarged image, it is unfriendly. If we're going to have to pay more with the addition of large photo files, we should be getting the indexing from Google. None of my images are being indexed by Google, of which many are HUGE files.

Being that my site is about photography, this would lend to my bringing in a lot more visitors and new members, further increasing the value in my Ning website. If these URL's could be indexed with friendly URL's, it would increase the value overall for Ning.