Does anybody know if there is a way to rewrite the urls generated by Apache Roller to make them SEO friendly?
The 2 issues I have with the urls generated by Roller are that they use '_' to separate words (and do not allow '-') and the number of characters allowed in the entry url are fairly limited.
Thanks in advance
I'm on the Roller team. Note #5 of my Blogging tips with Roller article should answer your question. (Namely no, but there's a reasonable workaround to get URLs changed.)
I would say the use of the underscore is more pleasing to the eyes than a hyphen to separate words, also it shouldn't have a negative effect on SEO -- just search on "enhancing jaxb artifacts" and you'll see Google pick up my underscore-using Roller blog entry with no problem. Further, many words beyond the five allowed by Roller result in long URLs for users and may not provide much additional SEO benefit.