How would I be able to use mod_rewrite and Prosper202 to take the keyword and use it as a directory name?

For example, if I had a search ad and the keyword was mykeyword, could I use mod_rewrite and Prosper to take the clicker to "www.mydomain.com/mykeyword/"? Additionally, are you able to use the {Keyword} variable in the display URL in Adwords?

Are you just talking in general, how to make your landing page URLs, have the keyword in them, and look nicely?

-Wes

Hey Wes,

More so in using multiple landing pages via mod_rewrite without actually having that many landing pages nor needing to add them into Prosper202.

I'd want to take the keyword that Prosper202 captures and then use mod_rewrite to turn it into a directory. I'm not sure if something special needs to be done because of Prosper202.

For example, if someone searches for "keyword", it would take them to www.domain.com/keyword/, which is created via mod_rewrite.

Thanks,

Adam

Hey Adam,

Ok if you want to do this it isn't really Prosper202 that will do it, but more so how you setup your landing pages.

If you want the www.domain.com/keyword/ like that, put this .htaccess file in your root directory. www.domain.com/.htaccess

ok what this is going to do is REDIRECT, EVERYTHING to index.php.

So even if you type in for instance, mydomain.com/test/test/

the file that is going to load is the mydomain.com/index.php

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You have now re-routed everything, so now on your destination urls you can send traffic to, (with google adwords for instance)

Now the keyword is your URL, google is dynamically placing it.

That should do it!

ok what this is going to do is REDIRECT, EVERYTHING to index.php.

So even if you type in for instance, mydomain.com/test/test/

the file that is going to load is the mydomain.com/index.php

--

You have now re-routed everything, so now on your destination urls you can send traffic to, (with google adwords for instance)

Thanks Wes, that's good info.

Since that code does it to everything, how would I have it apply only to a directory?

I created a directory /test/, dropped that .htaccess file in there, and changed:

RewriteRule .* /index.php [L]

to

RewriteRule .* /test/index.php [L]

but I wasn't able to get it to work (I got a not found error). Is there something else I need to change to be able to do that? This way I can keep my main directory for use with regular url access and only use the /test/ directory for my mod_rewrite links.

And since Adwords/etc change the spaces in my keywords to "+", is there a way in that htaccess file to change the "+" to a more aesthetically pleasing "-"?

That should work, says not found.

did u add the /test/index.php <<< FILE?

Nothing you can do about the adwords stuff, you'll have to redirect out, but thats the way they send it regardless, I'm not sure how much changing it would help.

Wes,

I got it working. I must have had an old cache the first time I tried it because now it's working.

Thanks again. I appreciate the help.

Adam