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    <p>I think my question may be worded incorrectly but heres what I want to do (for SEO purposes).</p> <p>I have a page that gives a logo and description of a brand e.g. Volvo. I want to use this same page as a template for all manufacturers but just change a few words around to customize it for each manufacturer accordingly. So in the URL I pass it a variable of the manufacturer e.g. "www.example.com/cars.cfm?manufacturer=BMW" and it will show a page that gives information about BMW.</p> <p>The problem is that for each manufacturer the information is still showing up as the same page "cars.cfm" in the address bar but really I want it to go to a URL like "www.example.com/manufacturers/volvo.cfm" so it appears as a unique page just for that brand. But at the same time I don't want to have to create a seperate CFM (or php/asp) page for each manufacturer.</p> <p>Is there a clever way to do this at all? I imagine its something to do with URL rewriting but not sure. I am using IIS 7.5.</p> <hr> <p>Creating numerous sub-folders for different car manufacturers is going to be very tedious. My site would also include other types of manufacturers for different products not just cars. I guess URL rewriting would be best but my idea was to have a different 'page' for each manufacturer so the SEO would be improved.</p> <p>Basically....</p> <pre><code>www.example.com/manufacturers/audi.cfm www.example.com/manufacturers/bmw.cfm www.example.com/manufactueres/volkswagen.cfm </code></pre> <p>But really I want the data on each of those pages to come from a database which contains unique data for each manufacturer such the logo image and history description.</p> <p>Here is an example of what I mean:</p> <pre><code>http://www.fivestarautocentre.co.uk &lt;-- go to bottom of that page and you can see links to various manufacturers </code></pre>
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    1. COWhat you're trying to do can be accomplished by URL Routing. With a route like `www.example.com/manufacturers/{id}`, the request www.example.com/manufacturers/BMW will route to the whatever handles the request for www.example.com/manufacturers with a request parameter `id=BMW`
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    2. COhttp://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite is the re-write filter for IIS which everyone seems to use. That'll let you do what you want, with the possible downside that you're then bound to a particular web server. Look at the Tuckey re-write filter for a platform-independent solution if that matters to you
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    3. COThis URL rewrite is also widely used, and based on Apache's mod_rewrite: http://www.helicontech.com/isapi_rewrite/
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