mod_rewrite/google optimization

Hello,

a friend told me that I should change my urls to .html extension, currently my website urls are like

www.com/page_info
instead of
www.com/page.php?id=info



so should I make it:
www.com/page_info.html

?? will it be better for google indexing ?

 

I am not really convince that google love more site that are mod rewrited... why I said that, because digitalpoint got lot of page index by google and position well to lot of keywords.

 

Google webmasters guidline:
* If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a "?" character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few.
* Don't use "&id=" as a parameter in your URLs, as we don't include these pages in our index. 

Code (markup):

so will the .html be better ?
i've been told that google interpret files without extension as scripts

 

for small sites, static links helps lot, DP if very big forum with huge backlinks and traffic so it can manage any type of links.

 

Your current Urls seem fine.... I personally dont think adding up .html should make any difference....

 

Its not complete SEO

Most important thing is quality of your backlinks.
It helps you in indexing your site deeper (means more pages indexed) and good serp ranking.

Only mod-rewrite will do nothing. (may be temporary change but soon it will vanish).

 

There have been countless discussion about the fact whether directory urls are better than html files when it comes to mod_rewrite. I can personally tell you that both work very well if you also do everything else (like mong said).

Just make your decision on what you will use and stick to it.

 

Taken from http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34431&topic=8522

I use a tool called StaticShell at www.staticshell.com for clients of mine that have dynamic sites with longer query-string urls, it basically creates a static version of the dynamic site, and has the added features of writing the title tag and file name based on top keywords of the page so products.php?id=4 becomes keyword1-keyword2-keyword3.html

 

I just took a quick glance at staticshell and wonder... could this not be used by people to copy other sites? (not that I want to do that - just wondering if that is a potential black hat use)

Lisa

 

Seems like many pages get indexed with the query in the tag, but there are some suggestions that SE's will not index further, after the ?page=page in the url.

But, google seems to be able to get most, including, I think that they are able to "hit enter" and access the files in forms that are part of the action tag...

I've always wondered though just how much the google toolbar actually plays in page indexing... what I mean from this is that I have a number of membership area pages that are not openly spiderable by links that they seem to get as well...

You might want to rewrite you url if there are links past the url that you wish the bot to access, but G seems able to get about everything whether you rewrite or not.

 

i think traffic is main factor
when u got high traffic u dont need SEO and vise versa