What is URL Rewriting? Is it beneficial to our site?

Hi

Friends,

kindly, make me understand that i want to know about url rewriting and how can this give advantage to our sites....

if site have around 15000 url then can we do this ...

suggest me asap..

 

URL Rewriting is what makes an ugly url into SEO-Friendly one.

For instance, if you have a url like this http://www.example.com/index.php?action=blah&article_id=12

We will term this one as ugly url

Now the SEO Friendly url of above one could be
http://www.example.com/article-title-as-slug.html

You can achieve such urls by creating .htaccess file. Additionally if your website offer article/blog or product or anything, the good idea is to have title of article/blog/product into your article with url acceptable characters, and pro term this as slug.

Sample and simple .htaccess file could be

Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /
  RewriteRule ^(.+?)\.html$ index.php?action=blah&slug=$1

PHP:

Find more on this by googling .htaccess file (works with Apache)

 

thanks for answering...

but from the seo point of view, it is good or not?

in my site, google still showing me error like unreachable url..
but that url we make it url re-writabel.. so why this happen..

 

SEO Friendly means good for SEO or google

Observe your self;

/my-first-article--12.html is much better than ?action=blah&article_id=12/


however, you will sometime observe that google position high a website which have urls like /my_first_article.aspx?article_id=12 or /article.cfm?title=my_first_article&article_id=12. But in both of these case you can clearly see the difference, that is article title "my_first_article" is present as slug within the URL.

As a rule of thumb, always use ReWrite rules for your URLs with Slug.

 

Try clicking the link of your own website, having re-write url and notice what error number or description it returns

I cant predict without looking at the url itself, however there could be following reasons;

1. Your re-write URL is not written correctly, that is why, when some one access it, it return 404 (Page not found) error message, which is enough to put one's website at the very last page of the google search result

2. something is broken within your script, that causes 500 (Internal server error). Another reason for google penality.

3. your rewrite url is re-directing, note that re-directing http code is 302, which is also considered really bad in search engines, and such pages not even indexed

 

some URL shows HTTP error, some shows unreachable url, some shows 404 Not Found, and run time error.

some time Server also occurs the problems on the site..

now what i have to done on my site?

kindly suggest me asap..

 

As honkabonka has stated; URL rewiring can offer many benefits when it comes to search engine optimization,

For the website to SEO friendly to benefit from using URLS, it would need to already be optimized well for internal SEO factors.

If you are having problem with your website currently, it would be best to resolve it rather than attempting to fix it with a different solution.

- What is the domain name of your website?

I would be happy to evaluate it for internal SEO factors, and analyze it to see if I can find the source of your problem.

 

Yes because it makes the url keyword rich.

 

hi,
If the your answer is yes then why I face error on my site..

If I generate sitemap then it will be helpful?

 

I was answering your question. Is url rewriting beneficial for SEO. Yes!

If the way you have setup the url rewrite is screwed that's a different issue.

The sitemap has nothing to do with url rewriting.

 

ok

thanks

 

Which type of redirect code u using

Temporary Redirect and Permanent Redirect.

Thanks

Auto Transport

 

is only good for SEO if you can storage those html ending pages in a xml file, that google could crawl, otherwise, It won't help you that much..
SEO Man, give me a hand.

 

You need to contact your programmer or some one experienced and fix those issues as soon as possible, otherwise your search ranking will drop seriously and more importantly your users will suffer.

I am programmer myself but I am very much occupied for couple of weeks ahead, however if its only Re-Write issue (will be identified upon inspection of .htaccess) then I guess it would take only and hour or 2 at maximum, to fix your issue.

Cheers!

 

Yes, url rewriting is very important. Because search engine robots are avoiding to crawl url with special characters like percent sign, so doing this you can instantly eliminate the problem of most websites of not being index by google.

 

ok I will discuss it with programmer thanks
and one more question please

Google already crawl old web pages and then they are doing url rewriting on that web pages..
so now can we stop Google to crawl that old web pages..
robot.txt is useful to stop google crawler.

thanks

 

For SEO purposes you might want to consider the following points.
- The URLs look nicer and will likely get clicked on more often
- The URLs will provide better anchor text if people use the URLs as the link anchor text

 

Yes, url rewriting is the best technique assumed so far to convert dynamic urls to static one as google can not read special symbols used in dynamic urls. So better convert all ur dynamic urls in static form.

 

yes url rewrite help in ranking

 

Rewriting the URL to a SEO friendly URL is so good and it easily get indexed in search engines.The Url must be understandable to all humans and search engines.