Search engine friendly urls

I'm thinking about removing my search engine friendly urls from my to see if it'll help a lot more or not because basically the search engines are indexing both sides, because of the archive, and I'm not sure if it would help to remove them or not, so I'm seeking help from the DP members to see what they'd say.

 

You should be using redirect match or the like to prevent this happenining. That way the dynamic urls will not exist. Although I have to ask, if the dynamic ones are being spidered, why are you rewriting?

 

if u remove ur search friendly you will loose your pr`s , because the links will change , domain/forum/xxx.html is different from domain/forum/show.php?if=xxx

for search engine its differents .

 

Why would I lose my pr? Do explain.

Ya, I could, but won't the search engines find the new urls or should I say old urls easily?

 

Let say you have this domain "my-domain.com"

and you have a forum on it . my-domain.com/forum


and you have threads ... the links of the threads are in this format :

my-domain.com/forum/thread-title.html

now let say you have a topic about cars with a title " Cars "

so the domain will be like this : my-domain.com/forum/cars.html

and let suppose this thread is old enough and have a pr of 5 .


When you remove the search engine friendly link the link of the thread will change to something that look like this :

my-domain.com/forum/showthread.php?id=xxxx (where xxxx is a uniq number that refere to the cars thread in the db)


for search engines there is difference between the 2 links .

The : my-domain.com/forum/showthread.php?id=xxxx will have a pr 0 because no one linked to it etc ...

 

He is right, despite the red rep

Do yourself a favour, and find out which one of the two has the most indexed, most back links and most traffic, then redirect keeping that version. If you do a 301 redirect match then after a couple of months all will settle down.