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SEO + URL + apostrophe = ? should I encode or remove the apostrophe?

If some half ass weak non-porn seo term has an apostrophe in it and I'm using it in the URL should I encode so that I can use the ' or should I just remove it from the URL?

I would not worry about apostrophes myself.

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Originally Posted by baddog (Post 15835908)

I would not worry about apostrophes myself.

thats why your seo will never be as strong as andre trotters... :2 cents:

Quote:

Originally Posted by marketsmart (Post 15835941)

thats why your seo will never be as strong as andre trotters... :2 cents:

I know, but one can dream.

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Originally Posted by Kard63 (Post 15835898)

If some half ass weak non-porn seo term has an apostrophe in it and I'm using it in the URL should I encode so that I can use the ' or should I just remove it from the URL?

remove it.

Code:

<?php



function cleanURL($string)

{

$url = str_replace("'", '', $string);

$url = str_replace('%20', ' ', $url);

$url = preg_replace('~[^\\pL0-9_]+~u', '-', $url); // substitutes anything but letters, numbers and '_' with separator

$url = trim($url, "-");

$url = iconv("utf-8", "us-ascii//TRANSLIT", $url);// you may opt for your own custom character map for encoding.

$url = strtolower($url);

$url = preg_replace('~[^-a-z0-9_]+~', '', $url); // keep only letters, numbers, '_' and separator

return $url;

}



// echo cleanURL("Shelly's%20Greatest%20Poem%20(2008)");  // shellys-greatest-poem-2008



?>

that is not important for SEO

remove the apostrophe. and when you have traffic on the urls with apostrophe than use a 301 redirection.

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Originally Posted by fris (Post 15836245)

remove it.

Code:

<?php



function cleanURL($string)

{

$url = str_replace("'", '', $string);

$url = str_replace('%20', ' ', $url);

$url = preg_replace('~[^\\pL0-9_]+~u', '-', $url); // substitutes anything but letters, numbers and '_' with separator

$url = trim($url, "-");

$url = iconv("utf-8", "us-ascii//TRANSLIT", $url);// you may opt for your own custom character map for encoding.

$url = strtolower($url);

$url = preg_replace('~[^-a-z0-9_]+~', '', $url); // keep only letters, numbers, '_' and separator

return $url;

}



// echo cleanURL("Shelly's%20Greatest%20Poem%20(2008)");  // shellys-greatest-poem-2008



?>

wtf is that mess?

Code:

<?php

function cleanURL($url, $seperator = '-') {

    $url = ereg_replace("[^[:alnum:][:space:]]", "", $url); //remove all but numbers. letters and spaces

    $url = str_replace('  ', ' ', $url ); //replace and double spaces with a single space

    $url = strtolower(str_replace(' ', $seperator, $url)); //replace spaces with seperator

    return $url

}



// echo cleanURL(urldecode("Shelly's%20Greatest%20Poem%20(2008)"));  // shellys-greatest-poem-2008



// echo cleanURL("Shelly's Greatest  Poem (2008)");  // shellys-greatest-poem-2008

?>