Canonical URLs help you to make your links Search Engine Optimized (SEO). For human it is easy to understand that http://www.live.com is same as http://live.com . But many search engines will not make this assumption and treat them as two separate entries. This will split the rankings among them and...

It's always good to have friendly URL so that people visiting your site find it easier to remember. Asking your user to remember http://www.contoso.com/article.aspx?id=342&title=URL-Rewrite-Walkthrough for URL Rewrite walkthrough is not the nicest thing to do. Won't it be cool if user can...

Won't it be cool if you can target and route appropriate users of your site to your pilot/beta/new looking site based on user's profile. This may help you in managing select users who have previously signed for pilot program and redirect them to new looking web site and gather feedback. This...

IIS7.0 Failed Request Tracing (FRT) is a powerful troubleshooting tool for request-processing failures. More details regarding FRT and how to enable it can be be found here . Once the failed request tracing is enabled for your site, do the following to trace rewrite rules: Double click on "Failed...

IIS Failed Request Tracing is a powerful way to troubleshoot Web Requests, it provides an easy way to track each execution step for one specific request. URL Rewrite Module provides several events that can be tracked using Failed Request Tracing, here Read More......( read more )

If you’re using IIS 7.0 (or 7.5), URL Rewrite is a valuable tool, well worth installing and using. One common use of URL Rewrite is redirecting http://domain.com to http://www.domain.com.  Many people are doing this for search engine optimization Read More......( read more )

Consider this a 2nd part to IIS URL Rewrite – rewriting non-www to www .  Reader Rubens asked about redirecting multiple domain names in a single rule.  That’s a good question and worth writing a part II blog post about it. Here’s his question: If there any generic way to do that if we have...

Consider this a 2nd part to IIS URL Rewrite – rewriting non-www to www .  Reader Rubens asked about redirecting multiple domain names in a single rule.  That’s a good question and worth writing a part II blog post about it. Here’s his question Read More......( read more )

In a shared hosting environment, it’s a common desire to have a single IIS website that handles multiple sites with different domain names.  This saves the cost of setting up additional sites with the hoster.  At ORCS Web , we’ve supported this Read More......( read more )

Application Request Routing (ARR) is a reverse proxy plug-in for IIS7+ that does many things, including functioning as a load balancer.  For this post, I’m assuming that you already have an understanding of ARR.  Today I wanted to find out how the mysterious link between ARR and URL Rewrite...