Thank You all for your replies! Actually my question was not for the extensions at all, i think i needed a complete rewrite. I think I will do it with the hrefs than to try things with .htaccess. @Arno - Not really very sure, my preference so far have been to have a .php extension on all the pages, be it plain .html files with contents or articles fetching data from the DB using .php, i prefer not to show an extension at all, aesthetically pleasing and usually doesn't let people know of the technology used eg : .aspx , .php etc... not sure if it makes a big difference, but my personal preference is cleanliness. I've seen in the past one of my old website showed on Google search with the entire URL with the data, and i know that the data which google showed can only be fetched from the database, hence the conclusion that they make for a better SEO, however that was about couple of years back, google tends to change things more than we anticipate or can think of i guess :) Thanks, Vinay On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Arno Kuhl <arno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Gavin Chalkley [mailto:gavin.chalkley@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 11 July 2012 10:08 PM > To: 'Vinay Kannan'; php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; phpexperts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: URL rewrite > > Vinay, > This does make for better SEO > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vinay Kannan [mailto:vinykan@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 11 July 2012 20:04 > To: php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; phpexperts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: URL rewrite > > Hello Experts, > > I have a query on URL rewriting. > > I have a site, which has categories and products under the categories. the > url has been re-written to hide the .php part of the pages, the page also > shows up correctly when we do type in the .php extension. > this is how a link shows : > > eg : localhost/showproducts?category=fantasy&book=A Game of Thrones > I was thinking of getting the url re-written to localhost/fantasy/A Game of > Thrones > I think this shows a cleaner URL and could be better for the SEO too? > any help is appreciated. > > Thanks, > Vinay > -- > > > Is that right? I thought spaces in a url were to be avoided, replaced with > dashes or underscores or other sensible delimiter? Personally I think the > "%20" looks a bit nasty in a url, but does it affect SEO? > > I also do url rewriting but have never been too sure about adding the > ".html" at the end, currently I do add it, but is it really required? The > original reason I added it was to distinguish article pages from topic > pages, the topic pages don't have the ".html", though the article pages > work > with or without the ".html" extension so it's more for an aesthetic reason > than anything else. Besides the possible need to distinguish between topic > and article titles, is there any SEO advantage to adding the ".html" > extension? > > Cheers > Arno > >
