Ok. My problem is I just re-done my website. Not even 30 minutes after uploading my pages already appear in the search engine. The link format on my site looks like this http://www.site.com/index.php/q=some+word+here http://www.site.com/index.php/q=some+word+here&page=2 but the way it appears in the search engine is like this: http://www.site.com/q=some+word+here http://www.site.com/q=some+word+here&page=2 Can someone please tell me how to do a htaccess rewrite for this. I tried these but they did not work. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} q=(.*) RewriteRule /?q=(.*)$ /index.php/q=(.*)? [R=301,L] RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} q=([^/.]+) RewriteRule /?q=([^/.]+)$ /index.php/q=(.*)? [R=301,L]