How to make URLs that people can read and Search Engines love

September 26th, 2008

The way your browser’s URLs return are also important in the Search game. Google arbitrarily refuses to index URLs containing “?id=”. Many argue about how URLs should be written, so that’s why mod_rewrite let you do it whichever way you prefer. You can create URLs manually or dynamically in several formats:

  • http://mysite.com/p1234.html (or .cgi or .jsp or .aspx or .php or .cfm or .anythingyouwant)
  • http://mysite.com/1234 (no extension)
  • http://mysite.com/page-name.html (manually created)
  • http://mysite.com/page_name.html (automatically created from the page title)
  • http://mysite.com/some/subfolder/pagename.html (uses site hierarchy and allows for duplicate aliases in different pages)
  • any combination of the above

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Wordpress and Modx are two amazing free software (Blog and CMS) which handle pretty good rewrite rules for Dynamic URLs.

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