title: SEO Friendly URL Rewriter Parameters
body: <p>I would appreciate you advice on how to incorporate parameters into SEO Friendly URLs</p>
  
  <p>We have decided to have the "techie" parameters first, followed by the "SEO Slug"</p>
  
  <p><code>\product\ABC123\fly-your-own-helicopter</code></p>
  
  <p>much like S.O. - if the SEO Slug changes, or is truncated, or missing, we still have the Product and ABC123 parameters; various articles say that having such extra data doesn't harm SEO ranking.</p>
  
  <p>We need to have additional parameters; we could use "-" to separate parameters as it makes them look similar to the SEO Slug, or we could/should use something else?</p>
  
  <p><code>\product\ABC123-BOYTOY-2\boys\toys\fly-your-own-helicopter</code></p>
  
  <p>This is product=<code>ABC123</code>, in Category=<code>BOYTOY</code> and Page=<code>2</code>.</p>
  
  <p>We also want to keep the hierarchy as flat as possible, and thus I think:</p>
  
  <p><code>\product-ABC123-BOYTOY-2\boys\toys\fly-your-own-helicopter</code></p>
  
  <p>would be better - one level less.</p>
  
  <p>We have a number of "zones", e.g.</p>
  
  <p><code>\product-ABC123\seo-slug-for-product</code><br>
  <code>\category-BOYTOY\seo-slug-for-category</code><br>
  <code>\article-54321\terms-and-conditions</code></p>
  
  <p>it would help us a lot if we could just user our 5 digit Page ID number instead, so these would become</p>
  
  <p><code>\12345-ABC123\seo-slug-for-product</code><br>
  <code>\23456-BOYTOY\seo-slug-for-category</code><br>
  <code>\54321\terms-and-conditions</code></p>
  
  <p>(Products &amp; Categories have a number of different Page IDs for different templates, this style would take us straight to the right one)</p>
  
  <p>I would appreciate your insight into what parameter separators to use, and if the leading techi-data is going work well for us.</p>
  
  <p>In case relevant: </p>
  
  <p>Classic ASP application on IIS7 + MSSQL2008
  Product &amp; Category codes contain A-Z, 0-9, "_" only.</p>