Restoblog » SEO http://www.restohof.com/blog What's happening at Restohof World Headquarters Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:15:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Pretty links http://www.restohof.com/blog/2007/07/11/pretty-links/ http://www.restohof.com/blog/2007/07/11/pretty-links/#comments Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:51:11 +0000 admin http://www.restohof.com/blog/?p=31 Personally I hate obfuscated URLs, ones like http://www.restohof.com/comments.php?job_id=25450. There is evidence that Google hates them too, and will give you a crap pagerank if the URL is too weird. At the very least, it’s better to have some nice keywords in there instead of “job_id.”

How to fix them?

One way is to dip into the arcane world of .htaccess files and mod_rewrite. I see you’re falling asleep already.

But wait!

You could hire someone to do it for you, or you could use this tool I found. it will write all the rules you need, you just plunk them into your .htaccess file and rejig your links, and your URLs will be nice and purty. Which is exactly what I’ve been tinkering wround with for the last 2 days.

Stay tuned for pretty links at Restohof.com, coming soon!

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