[TP3] Alias Smallcaps

TP3 change all alias name in all small caps automatically - why???

ex:
Home > changed in home
ProductsList > productslist

Whith new small caps name i loose all Google PageRank

If is not a bug - can i deactivate??

That behavior will not be in 3.1. The new default behavior is to only touch the alias field if you have created aliases turned on, and the field is blank.

Is Google really case sensitive?

Quote from: rthrash at Jul 22, 2005, 01:26 PM

That behavior will not be in 3.1. The new default behavior is to only touch the alias field if you have created aliases turned on, and the field is blank.

How Can i remove/deactivate this beahavior, till tp3.1?


Quote from: rthrash at Jul 22, 2005, 01:26 PM

Is Google really case sensitive?

Yes

Thanks rthrash

That’s really odd. I’ve noticed different Adsense ads when searching "Tomato" vs. "tomato" (and same for lettuce, ford, MODx, and so on), but the general ranking on the top 10 results doesn’t change.

3.1 is right around the corner. Perhaps Raymond or Jason can post the relevant files/changes here.

Quote from: banzai at Jul 22, 2005, 01:55 PM

Quote from: rthrash at Jul 22, 2005, 01:26 PM

That behavior will not be in 3.1. The new default behavior is to only touch the alias field if you have created aliases turned on, and the field is blank.

How Can i remove/deactivate this beahavior, till tp3.1?

Here you go:

Check to make sure you don’t have Automatic Aliases on

or

open manager/processors/save_content.processor.php and comment out lines 48-76.

Quote from: xwisdom at Jul 22, 2005, 03:12 PM

Here you go:

Check to make sure you don’t have Automatic Aliases on

no i don’t have.

Quote from: xwisdom at Jul 22, 2005, 03:12 PM

or

open manager/processors/save_content.processor.php and comment out lines 48-76.

Thanks!! i tried it and resolve the problem;)

I have an opinion on this and someone feel free to correct me or offer another perspective, but, here we go :

First, no, I don’t believe Google search is case-sensitive, and I doubt this is affecting Adsense ads, but I could be wrong on that point.

Second, using mixed case in URLs is horrible for users and accessibility, cause on Linux servers, unless they get the case exactly right, they’re going to get a 404 (or referral to the error page in our case). I recently converted a site that was originally deployed like this via FrontPage and on the ’nix server, it was a mess to say the least, so I followed recommendations I’ve gotten from many SEO experts (and from using WordPress, which is where the majority of the alias cleaning concepts implemented here came from) and made them all lower-case, replaced spaces with a dash (-), etc. But to prevent breaking the mixed case links, I implemented one change to the MODx friendly URL rewrite rule to help manage the case-sensitivity:



Notice the NC at the end, which indicates to mod_rewrite to ignore the case of the request.

Again, just my perspective on this; I’m just hoping I can have the option to apply the alias cleaning rules even if I don’t use automatic aliases?