What you thing would be better:
This is what I have at moment...am already using mod-rewrite.
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NOW
www.domain.com?group=artsupplies&cat=beading
www.domain.com/artsupplies/beading.html
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NEXT
www.domain.com&group=artsupplies&cat=be ... ity=oxnard
www.domain.com/artsupplies/beading/usa/ ... xnard.html
or www.domain.com/artsupplies/beading/usa- ... xnard.html
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PAGING
at moment i display as this:
www.domain.com/artsupplies/beading.html/2
www.domain.com/artsupplies/beading.html/3
is that ok for SEO reasons and gettin index... or would a crawler be turned off by the above links?
i was thinkin of: ( but am not sure if i should) the mod rewrite was giving me problems...it is starting to get to complex i think
www.domain.com/artsupplies/beading/2.html
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MY MOD REWRITES at the moment
rewriteEngine on
rewriteRule ^GOOGLE754880740b1c2d27.html$ GOOGLE754880740b1c2d27.html [L]
rewriteRule ^test5.html$ test5.html [L]
rewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)\.html$ profile.php?list=$1 [L]
rewriteRule ^/?([^/]+)\.html$ listings.php?group=$1 [L]
rewriteRule ^/?([^/]+)/([^/]*)\.html$ listings.php?group=$1&category=$2 [L]
rewriteRule ^/?([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]*)\.html$ listings.php?group=$1&category=$2&loc=$3 [L]
rewriteRule ^/?([^/]+)/([^/]*)\/basics.html$ basic.php?group=$1&category=$2 [L]
rewriteRule ^/?([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]*)\.html$ listings.php?group=$1&category=$2&subCat=$3 [L]
rewriteRule ^/?([^/]+)/([^/]*)\.html/([0-9]*)/?$ listings.php?group=$1&category=$2&start=$3 [L]
rewriteRule ^/?([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]*)\.html/([0-9]*)/?$ listings.php?group=$1&category=$2&subCat=$3&start=$4 [L]
# Extract the first part of the domain name
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.
# If it's not www
RewriteCond %1 !^www$ [NC]
# Redirect permanently to www.example.com
RewriteRule . http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]