What search format should I use?

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I would say that the most search engine friendly format to have your search page in is one where there are text links to categories or search results instead of forms that have to post values to the results page.

Having said that, I want to alter my wine search page to have more links to categories and away from using dynamic urls. I want to get each wine review onto it's own page and all the pages will probably have to have a mod_rewrite for this.

Has anyone got any ideas or suggestions on the layout and format of the whole search page? I would appreciate some ideas from you before I say what I was thinking of doing. For example, links to regions or vintages and a form for whatever too. I just trying to get a user-friendly method of searching and to be SE-friendly at the same time. I don't want it to be like a directory though. I am going to look for ideas from other sites too, maybe that will help...

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Maybe a good start would be to make directories for your categories. Then into the category you can add the region or not add this at all if you don't have enough links into the regions, as it will be more difficult to get indexed. The more levels you have in your links, the most difficult is for the search engine to index it.

Something that you have to consider is the uris for your reviews and categories. It is very important to have keywords inside them but with no patterns. I mean having in all the reviews a form like ?id=x&wine=xxxxxxx is not so helpfull. Having the word wine inside the content on a <strong> or <h1,2,3> tag would be better.

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The categories would be wine regions, vintages, blends and wineries. I could probably even break them into countries too. I think that the uris will get long if I use all of them in the link.

Maybe I sould keep the current search page as a more advanced search page and just make a new one?

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I think that this would be good.

Maybe you should make something like a review directory, and I think this would be also valuable for your visitors

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