Search Engine Safe query strings

hi guys, ok i got a good one for you...
so ive heard that google (and users) like it if you chang:
www.abc.com/somepage.cfm?productid=1234
into
www.abc.com/products/red-ones/1234
or similar.
so if i'm going to do this which is the best format? (i'm
building the site from scratch so have a blank canvass)
option 1:
www.abc.com/products/car-parts/fuel-systems/1234
this option - looks nice but actually points to a *virtual*
page (www.abc.com/products/car-parts/fuel-systems/1234/index.cfm)
that is several sub directories deep; im sure i read somewhere that
the closer a page is the root the better google will rate it... so
maybe this is better..
www.abc.com/car-parts-fuel-systems/1234 or
www.abc.com/car-parts-fuel-systems-1234
-less visually attractive to my way of thinking but perhaps
google would rate this page higher than the option1 one?
or how about this (which had been suggested to me but i dont
like)
www.abc.com/products.cfm/car-parts/fuel-systems/1234
i dont like the above one as it isnt www3 correct is it?
although i can see how it is possibly nicer than
www.abc.com/products.cfm?carpartid=1234
so what do you guys think?
thanks very much indeed
Nick

hi Nick,
whilst you handle it all in CF via stub files a much cleaner
approach is to use web server rewrites. On IIS you need to purchase
something called ISAPI_Rewrite and on Apache it's free called
mod_rewrite.
What this does is allow the web server to pattern match your
incoming url requests via regular expressions and rewrite them on
the fly.
For example,
I'm currently working on a fusebox site, that has big massive
query strings like
http://mysite/index.cfm?fuseaction=links.display
with mod_rewrite, I'm actually accessing the pages as;
http://mysites/links/display
- much much cleaner
and you can get as complex as you like, for example to get
information about a product into my URL i have one for example;
http://mysites/products/product/1234/a-super-cool-widget
and i have a rewrite rule that is then plucking out the
'1234' from the URL and actually serving the page;
http://mysites/index.cfm?fuseaction=products.product&productid=1234
have a look into that and see how you get on,
edit: I should say that you have to write the rewrite rules
yourself - they're not that magic and with a little bit of time you
can usually get them working pretty quick.

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