On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 07:58:24AM +0100, Ashley Sheridan wrote: <snip> > I've done a bit of research into that, and can't find any evidence to > suggest that the so-called "friendly URL's" are actually of any benefit > to search engines. Just put a question into Google, and more often than > not, the top few results are from forums, which tend not to use these > friendly URL's. The only reason one might help with SEO is the case > where a site is being redeveloped or re-versioned, and you need to > preserve old page names to retain any ranking the site once had. This is a really good point. I've *always* heard/read that ugly URLs aren't indexed by search engines. But somehow it never occurred to me that what you're saying about search engine results is true. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
