Htaccess issue & Search engine positioning question

[T-Kai]

"RewriteRule ^Songs/([^/]+)/([^/]+)-([^/]+)\.php$ /Songs/?show=song&id=$1&artist=$2&title=$3 [L]"

This links from http://www.domain.com/Songs/ID/ARTIST-TITLE.php to the script that actually executes the command.

I would like to resolve to the same script, hosted on the same URL, but to access it from a different subdomain. The thing is that the subdomain doesn`t actually exist (I don`t want to create it), but if there is a way to fake it by using htaccess, please let me know.

I would like it to look like this instead :
http://music.domain.com/Songs/ID/ARTIST-TITLE.php


I have another question regarding the search engine ranking. What would be the best URL to use with high ranking when someone searches for midis by ARTIST and/or TITLE of the song.

I was thinking of the following :
Option 1 : http://midi.domain.com/MIDI_ARTIST-TITLE.php
+ where for artist or title if it has more than 1 word in the name, I would display it as one (example : Black Eyed Peas; BlackEyedPeas)
Option 2 : http://www.domain.com/MIDI_ARTIST-TITLE.php
+ in case I will not be able to get the htaccess to resolve from a subdomain
Option 3 : http://midi.domain.com/MIDI_ARTISTTITLE.php
Option 4 : http://midi.domain.com/ARTISTTITLE.mid.php
Option 5 : http://midi.domain.com/ARTISTTITLE.mid
+ probably not a good option for mp3s, because mp3s are usually bigger than 1MB, while the site will be just a couple of KBs.

What would be the best option? If you have any other options/suggestions please let me know.

Thank you,
Luka

[PhilC]

For seo, seperate every word in the filenames with either an underscore or a hyphen.

[T-Kai]

PhilC : Thanks for the reply. Are you sure I should separate every word with an underscore or a hyphen? Because the thing is that sites without them rank higher. Perhaps it is just a coincidence. Also which option from the ones stated above you think would rank the highest? Any other suggestions are welcome.

Waiting for more replies.

Thanks,
Luka

[T-Kai]

Come on, anyone?

[PhilC]

Yes. Seperate all the words. It's only a small factor but lots of small factors add up. High ranking pages without word seperation are there because of other factors. If they'd seperated the words, their positions be just be a little bit stronger.

[T-Kai]

Yeah, I figured that out already. The sites that are ranked high are mostly because they use a lot of <h1> html tags with which they display the key words. That gives more weight to the site.

I will display relevant title and description according to each page`s content.

Any other things I should consider to be ranked high?

Thanks,
Luka

[PhilC]

http://www.v7n.com/seo_copywriting.php

Give that a read.

[T-Kai]

I read that already a while ago. Thought if there are any more advanced technics that I could use. I plan to do all the basic things and also more advanced to be ranked the highest.

The problem would be using the H tags though. With my design H1 or H2 text is simply too big. Are there any alternatives that I could use and still get good weight for the site?

[Thanol]

You can use CSS to shrink the H tags a little using:
[code:1:c97ee8490c]<style>
H1 { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight : bold ; font-size : 20px; }
</style>[/code:1:c97ee8490c]

[T-Kai]

Thanol : Thanks Exactly that is what I was wondering. If CSS can help. I hope search engines do not see the difference.

[niceguyeddie]

you can even have text under the h tags, and display an image instead (so the search engines see the text, and browsers see the image). CSS works wonders.