re-write rule so multiple versions of the same keyword aren't indexed

I note that your second example used minus signs not plus signs, which indeed will make them different.

Have a look at the php command strtolower() then use in the bit of the themes/default/index.php that displays the menu & related items to lower case the link that is created.

To remove the current ones from the google index include them in your robots.txt as a disallow, then add them to the "Remove URLs" page of Google Web master Tools

And/Or

Try dropping something like this into the top of your .htaccess file

RewriteRule ^buy/Glow+Worm+Sunglasses$ buy/glow-worm-sunglasses [L,301]

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oops I didn't mean to use dashes. sorry for the confusion.

What I want is for any capitalization to be re-written as lower case urls so that when I use capital first letters for the main keyword menu items the actual url would be in all lower case. (yet still retain the capital first letter in the menu) Is that possible?

Glow+Worm+Sunglasses and glow+worm+sunglasses result in two different urls for google indexing and for the custom text feature of McJiffy.

I'm not familiar with php or re-write rules so I'm not sure without a lot of research how one might do this. You may have to walk me through it a bit. =)

I know I could do a permanent redirect in the .htaccess file but that would just make them show up as lower case in the menu anyway. Is there a way to keep the capital first letters in the menu yet have the actual url be lower case?

Could you give me a little more direction on the strtolower() for a newbe php-er =)

thanks so much!

Perhaps I figured it out, are there any problems with this statement?

It seems to work but I don't know if that is the correct way to do it.

Also when I try to do a redirect in the .htaccess file like this:

I get the following in the browser window and it doesn't call the custom text (which is all in lowercase):
mysite.com/subdirectory/buy/keyword?action=buy&q=Keyword

Will search engines index the long string or just the mysite.com/subdirectory/buy/keyword like I want it to? and how can I get it to call the custom text file?

Thanks Chuck or Matt

Yup, that first bit of code looks fine. Coding guru's would insist that you put the strtolower *inside* the urlencode bit but in this case it doesn't really matter. (IMHO anyhow)

As for the second, have a look at using RewriteRule with a 301 response, that will tell google that /buy/Keyword has permanently moved to /buy/keyword it will then (eventually) drop the page from it's index.

HTH

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Thanks, I wouldn't want to offend the guru's tho. =)

As far as the RewriteRule I haven't had any luck getting that to work using this (with my previous keyword example):

RewriteRule ^buy/Glow+Worm+Sunglasses$ buy/glow+worm+sunglasses [R=301] it just gives a 200 response header and shows the original page.

When I use RedirectPermanent it does the 301 redirect but the url has the query string (ie.. /buy/keyword?action=buy&q=Keyword) at the end which I don't want google to pick up. any ideas why that is happening?

Try putting the RewriteRule before the other default RewriteRule and add an L to the square brackets to make it look something like [R=301,L]....the L tells it that this is the last RewriteRule, so if there is a match it doesn't try to run the other RewriteRules. Make sence?

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Thanks Chuck, however that didn't seem to work. It still goes directly to the original url without the redirect. Also doesn't trigger the custom text, but neither does the RedirectPermanent when I use that method.

I have McJiffy in a subdirectory does that matter with the way that Rewrite rule is written? I do have the subdirectory designated in the .htaccess file, and all the default rewrite rules work.

Not sure if it will matter, never played with RewriteRules in a subdirectory to be honest.

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