Yes, you could rewrite .aspx pages to directory-url's:

<!-- SEO: Using Directory URLs, so force trim all .aspx -->
<!-- exclude umbraco folder -->
<rule name="Trim aspx for directory URLs" stopProcessing="true">
 <match url="(.*)\.aspx$" />
 <conditions>
  <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/umbraco/" negate="true" />
 </conditions>
 <action type="Redirect" redirectType="Permanent" url="{R:1}" />
</rule>

Found here: http://umbraco.miketaylor.eu/2010/11/03/url-rewriting-and-seo/

Thanks for the quick reply. If i understand what is written in that link, that removes .aspx from ALL pages? we might do that in the future but many of our templates and macros rely on hotlinking so if .aspx was removed they had to be changed (which is quite a lot of work). Can i remove it for JUST that one page?

Thanks man, just what i needed :) i will also try and implement the code from the link you gave me later, as it looks like the best overall solution.

I meant that some of the xslt files etc. links directly to some of the pages, as in not use node id's for example, and instead www.something.com/something.aspx. But if that wont be a problem even after the changes to the web.config then i wouldnt have to worry.

Exactly, all your existing .aspx links will work, as in they will redirect to the non-.aspx link (directory url) :-)

Awesome! Thanks!

Hi,

The correct way of doing this should not be at a url rewriting level;   Google wants you to use a specific tag called canonical.

If you add this in between the head tags.

 <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.oursite.com/promotion"/>

It will not matter to google that the other .aspx is accessible as it will treat the above link as the main page, ignoring all duplicates.. 

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394 

DC 

Matt Cutts tells a different story http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW5UL3lzBOA

@kipusoep I added as you suggested this to my web.config file

<!-- SEO: Using Directory URLs, so force trim all .aspx -->
    <!-- exclude umbraco folder -->
    <rule name="Trim aspx for directory URLs" stopProcessing="true">
    <match url="(.*)\.aspx$" />
    <conditions>
    <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/umbraco/" negate="true" />
    </conditions>
    <action type="Redirect" redirectType="Permanent" url="{R:1}" />
    </rule>

But then going to my website results in a 505 error pages.

Is there anything else I should configure?

greetings,

Anthony

You need to add the rule to urlrewritting.config inside the config folder not web.config, that is probably your issue :-)

Check out http://www.urlrewriting.net/160/en/documentation.html for more info about rules you can add to urlrewritting.config

Hi Jeavon,

No, the <urlrewriting> element in the urlrewriting.config file doesn't have a <rule> element. It should be in the web.config file alright. I got this information from Scott Gutthrie blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/04/20/tip-trick-fix-common-seo-problems-using-the-url-rewrite-extension.aspx

My problem was that I didn't have url redirect extensions installed on my webserver (IIS 7.5)

After following the instructions on Scott's blog, everything is working fine. The rule for redirecting url's with /default was added, as wel as kipusoup's rule for url's with a file extionsion. My rules in my web.config file now look like this:

<rewrite>

<rules>

                <rule name="Default Document URL Rewrite" stopProcessing="true">

                    <match url="(.*?)/?Default\.aspx$" />

                    <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}/" />

                </rule>µ

                <!-- SEO: Using Directory URLs, so force trim all .aspx -->

                <!-- exclude umbraco folder -->

                <rule name="Trim aspx for directory URLs" stopProcessing="true">

                <match url="(.*)\.aspx$" />

                <conditions>

                <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/umbraco/" negate="true" />

                </conditions>

                <action type="Redirect" redirectType="Permanent" url="{R:1}" />

                </rule>

            </rules>

        </rewrite>

The only rule I want to add still is a rule for case-sensitive url's so that for instance a url like

www.webmove.be/Diensten

will be redirected to www.webmove.be/diensten

Any help would be greatly appreciated

greetings,

Anthony

ok, I should have read Scott's blog post 't ill the end, there is also a rule for case-sensitive url's:

<rule name="LowerCaseRule1" stopProcessing="true">

                    <match url="[A-Z]" ignoreCase="false" />

                    <action type="Redirect" url="{ToLower:{URL}}" />

                </rule>

greetings,

Anthony

Ok, so a little update and hopefully some help (i hope that the topic marked "solved" wont scare people away).

I ended up putting this in UrlRewriting.config which was a much easier solution:

<add name="SEO | Trim .aspx for directory URLs"
         redirect="Application"
         redirectMode="Permanent"
         virtualUrl="^/(?![0-9]+.aspx)(?!umbraco/)(.*).aspx$"
         rewriteUrlParameter="ExcludeFromClientQueryString"
         destinationUrl="/$1/"
         ignoreCase="true" />

But, here is a crazy question: how do i FORCE .aspx at the end of url's instead of removing them? as in redirecting "www.mysite.com/somepage/" to "www.mysite.com/somepage.aspx" instead of the other way around like most would?

Sorry for bump, but i woulder rather do this than create a redundant thread.

Also, im not good with regex so bear with me, how do i redirect any ".asp" requests? because before we moved to umbraco the old site used .asp pages, but google still remember them and it hurts the pagerank because there are so many pages that google still try to find.

Btw, I'm using these rules:

<!-- SEO rules (from: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-every-seo-should-know-about-iis#chaining) -->
<!-- SEO | Section 1 | Whitelist -->
<rule name="Whitelist - Resources" stopProcessing="true">
  <match url="^(?:css/|scripts/|images/|install/|config/|umbraco/|umbraco_client/|base/|services/|webresource\.axd|scriptresource\.axd)"/>
  <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false"/>
  <action type="None"/>
</rule>
<!-- SEO | Section 2 | Rewrites (chaining) -->
<rule name="SEO - Remove default.aspx" stopProcessing="false">
  <match url="(.*?)/?default\.aspx$"/>
  <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
    <add input="{HTTP_METHOD}" pattern="GET"/>
  </conditions>
  <action type="Rewrite" url="_{R:1}"/>
</rule>
<rule name="SEO - Remove trailing slash" stopProcessing="false">
  <match url="(.+)/$"/>
  <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
    <add input="{HTTP_METHOD}" pattern="GET"/>
    <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true"/>
    <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true"/>
  </conditions>
  <action type="Rewrite" url="_{R:1}"/>
</rule>
<rule name="SEO - Lower case" stopProcessing="false">
  <match url="(.*)" ignoreCase="false"/>
  <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
    <add input="{HTTP_METHOD}" pattern="GET"/>
    <add input="{R:1}" pattern="[A-Z]" ignoreCase="false"/>
  </conditions>
  <action type="Rewrite" url="_{ToLower:{R:1}}"/>
</rule>
<!-- SEO | Section 3 | Redirecting -->
<rule name="SEO - HTTP canonical redirect" stopProcessing="true">
  <match url="^(_*)(.*)"/>
  <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="true">
    <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^www\.(.*)"/>
    <add input="{HTTP_METHOD}" pattern="GET"/>
    <add input="{SERVER_PORT}" pattern="80"/>
  </conditions>
  <action type="Redirect" url="http://{C:1}/{R:2}"/>
</rule>
<rule name="SEO - HTTPS canonical redirect" stopProcessing="true">
  <match url="^(_*)(.*)"/>
  <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="true">
    <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^www\.(.*)"/>
    <add input="{HTTP_METHOD}" pattern="GET"/>
    <add input="{SERVER_PORT}" pattern="443"/>
  </conditions>
  <action type="Redirect" url="http://{C:1}/{R:2}"/>
</rule>
<rule name="SEO - Non-canonical redirect" stopProcessing="true">
  <match url="^(_+)(.*)"/>
  <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
    <add input="{HTTP_METHOD}" pattern="GET"/>
  </conditions>
  <action type="Redirect" url="{R:2}"/>
</rule>
<!-- // SEO rules -->

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