Web Page file names

Nick-V · Post by **Nick-V** » 18 Nov 2009 18:14

It appears that web page file names are numbered sequentially. This means that a change in my data results in the page name changing next time the web is generated.

This causes havoc for search engines. One minute John Smith is an page http://bla.com/ind447.html and after a relatively minor change he is at a different page !

Would it not be better if web page names were somehow based on the UID/record number or something?

Or am I doing it wrong?

ID:4150

PeterR · Post by **PeterR** » 18 Nov 2009 20:02

Not sure what's going on. I've just looked at a very small example I generated using V4 a while ago. It contains just seven Family pages with numbers 3, 4, 8, 9, 51, 870, & 1049 and just two Individual pages with numbers 581 & 582. In all cases the numbers correspond to the current FH Record IDs. Perhaps another user may be able to help?

YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 18 Nov 2009 20:03

As far as I can see the page are numbered using the Individual and Family Record Ids

Nick-V · Post by **Nick-V** » 18 Nov 2009 20:18

Yes I seem to be wrong and there is another cause. It does indeed seem that FAM and IND pages are numbered consistently.

Looking at Google I even have some apparently missing pages...when I examine the Google cache I see the problem...I used to publish IND records only and now publish the default of FAM records with IND records only where there is no family. As long as I don't renumber Record Identifiers FAM and IND records should now stay consistent.

I also see issues with TOC records. Unfortunately Google will probably screw up links for a while if I insert or delete items in the Table of Contents but at least I now understand this...it would be better if there was a way to FIX manually the page name of TOC items to avoid this issue.

Thanks for the responses.

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