No SEO-URL Umlaut/Int. Character Translation!?

[vFranky]

Hello,

I found, that there the german word "Städte" (= cities) is translated in the url part "st-dte".

As you can see, the umlaut "ä" is completely lost. It should be "staedte" instead, because "ae" is normally the url-forum of "ä". As for example "ue" is the SEO-URL translation of "ü", as used in vBseo too (vBseo has also a section for user-defined character translation).

But what's about PhotoPost? Is there any feature for this?

Regards,
Frank

[Chuck S]

what are the umlaut translations?

[Chuck S]

If I had all the umlate translations i could possibly write up a str_replace.

[vFranky]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

what are the umlaut translations?

Assume you are creating a PhotoPost category name like "Städte" (german for "cities") using the special character "ä". Then you get for example a seo relevant url like -->

http://www.my-website.com/g511-st-dte.html

This is bad. Because the url part "st-dte" is not likely to boost your page relevance for the german keyword "Städte". I like to tell PhotoPlog to make the url part "staedte" ("ä" to "ae") from "Städte" instead.

Can it be configured? It work in vBseo.

[Chuck S]

I guess you did not understand my question above?

[vFranky]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

If I had all the umlaut translations i could possibly write up a str_replace.

Sound goods! But it would be most flexible to put these PhotoPost category to SEO-url character translations in a file. So everyone can configure his or her own international seo character translations.

The relevant german character translations for producing correct seo urls are:

"Ä" --> "Ae"
"ä" --> "ae"
"Ü" --> "Ue"
"ü" --> "ue"
"Ö" --> "Oe"
"ö" --> "oe"
"ß" --> "ss"

Small thing, but very import for the correct working of the PhotoPost seo-option. Thank you in advance!

Regards,
Frank

[Chuck S]

Thanks.

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[vFranky]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

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Thank you very much.

[Chuck S]

No problem glad to assist.