URL Rewrite Question

I just downloaded PageBlaster the other day (free version) and if I get everything working correctly, I will purchase the full version, because I have read great reviews about this module.

I do need help with 1 setting though.

Concerning URL rewriting and SEO:

I have read the following post.

http://www.snapsis.com/DotNetNuke/Support/tabid/560/forumid/12/postid/5000/view/topic/DNN-Tips-And-Tricks-5000.aspx

and this one

www.snapsis.com/DotNetNuke/Support/tabid/560/view/topic/forumid/16/postid/6348/Default.aspx

 I was able to configure the siteurls.config file in order to allow people to simply enter a url for my site's pages, such as
www.domainname.com/pagename.aspx

My question is the following. Whenever people click a link to the above page from my menu, dnn automatically redirects it but displays the page name with all the standard url:  http://domainname.com/PageName/tabid/51/Default.aspx

This is not the behavior that I am looking for, I want to make every single page appear with the format   www.domainname.com/pagename.aspx, regardless of where it comes from.

I believe that the second post above explains how to accomplish this by adding a rule to the Snapsis.PageBlaster.config file. Is this what I should be adding? Could you please give me an example of a rule which would allow this behavior? I am a little rusty on regular expressions, and the example from the above post talks about the terms page which is more complicated than I need.

Thank you.

If you want to do it globally by just "re-arranging" the Friendly Url that DotNetNuke puts out, you could use this rule:

SearchFor:       (http[s]?://[^/]+)(/[^"]+)(/(?=tabid)[^"]+)/Default\.aspx(?!\?)

ReplaceWith:    $1$3$2.aspx

You will still have the tabid in the Url with that method though.

If you want to make specific page names regardles of what it is named in DotNetNuke then you need a combination of the SiteUrls.config (to map a regular name to a tabid) and an output replacement for each page (like in the terms/privacy post).

The PageBlaster DNN module (paid version) does the virtual path mapping on each page which is more or less what you could do yourself with the SiteUrls.config.

Thank you John for the quick reply.

Quoting you from your reply, this is what I am interested in doing.

If you want to make specific page names regardles of what it is named in DotNetNuke then you need a combination of the SiteUrls.config (to map a regular name to a tabid) and an output replacement for each page (like in the terms/privacy post).

The PageBlaster DNN module (paid version) does the virtual path mapping on each page which is more or less what you could do yourself with the SiteUrls.config.

But, I still have a question, do you mean that there are 2 options in order to accomplish this? I can either do it myself manually, with the 2 config files, or if I purchase the paid version,  there is an easier way of configuring it per page?

Thanks

Yes, that is all possible. 

Perfect, thank you again.

Another question John

Once I set all of my virtual url's , do you know if google will index the friendly URL's that I set , instead of the tabid ones?

Thanks

Oh, I see. I didn't know that. Great info!

I will upgrade to the full module later tonight. Thanks again John.

I have been reluctant to change all of the side-wide URLS, given that I have been getting some backward links pointing to my portal and hate to start all over (or be left with a bunch of indexed broken links). Based on your post, it sounds like the old /tabid/68/Default.aspx style of links still work and the new, rewritten URLS are merely virtual paths to the /tabid/68/Default.aspx style pages? So both /tabid/68/Default.aspx and /home.aspx forms of the URL would work? Does this raise duplicate content issues?

... have 30+ windows and the PB documentation open for my 2 hour commute tomorrow morning, so I apologize if this is a stupid question that is answered elsewhere. ;)