Should we do url rewriting? How?

[Colsen]

I have created this website in conjunction with a programmer. We are trying to decide if we should do url rewriting (which we know little about), and I have a few very basic questions.

1) How do you do url rewriting?

2) How hard is it to do url rewriting?

3) How important is url rewriting?

4) How badly does our website need url rewriting?


Thanks

[Logicb0x]

First, I just use wordpress and change the permalink, or I do it manually by copying my post title and make it as URL.

[larryatv7]

I just did url rewriting today. I did it to avoid duplicate content issue for my homepage. I did not know how to do it and google has a lot of information. I just copied the code and modified it for my site. You can do the same too if you want.

[sequence]

Url rewriting is important

when your site is dynamic and there are many links come from other sites...

[Dylan55]

So, if the URL rewriting is important? How or what is the process of rewriting it. Well, my experience is I can rewrite or edit the URL of my blogs in both blogger and Wordpress. But in a site, I don't know how to rewrite it. Maybe onpage optimization.

[gopalseo]

1) How do you do url rewriting?

you can do URL Rewriting Through htaccess file.

2) How hard is it to do url rewriting?
it's a simple code for url rewriting and which is different for PHP and .net develoment

3) How important is url rewriting?
because of that your sites can be SEO Friendly URL if you have dynamic url's then you can rewrite this URLs

4) How badly does our website need url rewriting?
your sites need rewriting urls with several Pages.

[Colsen]

2) How hard is it to do url rewriting?
it's a simple code for url rewriting and which is different for PHP and .net develoment

Thank you, gopalseo, that is very helpful. Again, I am working with a programmer, and I myself know nothing about programming. Where can I find this simple code for either PHP or .net?

[SEOWebHelp]

Your site is made with ASP. This is the code for 301 redirects.

<%
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader='Location','http://www.new-url.com/'
%>



Canonical Hostname Redirect (non-www to www):
This code should be inserted into a global include file or any ASP script which is executed for every page on the site before the page output begins:


<%
If InStr(Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME"),"www") = 0 Then
	Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
	Response.AddHeader "Location","http://www."
		& Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_HOST")
		& Request.ServerVariables("REQUEST_URI")
	Response.End
End if
%>

This site has the code and the information - http://www.beyondink.com/howtos/301-redirect.php#ASP

[johnsunvalley]

if you want your page more seo. rewrite your pages is important. URL is important for seo. and then title. so it is valuable to rewrite your url. my friend.

[tcyonline.com]

Originally Posted by Colsen

I have created this website in conjunction with a programmer. We are trying to decide if we should do url rewriting (which we know little about), and I have a few very basic questions.

1) How do you do url rewriting?

2) How hard is it to do url rewriting?

3) How important is url rewriting?

4) How badly does our website need url rewriting?


Thanks

Hi,

Yes in SEO url rewriting is good because SERP's find some keywords in url and now these days all are doing same.

[zeruel]

Originally Posted by Colsen

1) How do you do url rewriting?

I believe it is mostly done using the .htaccess file.

Originally Posted by Colsen

2) How hard is it to do url rewriting?

It will always depend on what do you want to rewrite or where it is done.

Originally Posted by Colsen

3) How important is url rewriting?

Very important in terms of SEO.

Originally Posted by Colsen

4) How badly does our website need url rewriting?

Do you see your url format now? Do you imagine how bad does it look? IMO, that URL format is really horrible. Make it short and doesn't look messy or spammy.

Check out this link to know more about url rewriting with ASP. >>> http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/urlrewriter.aspx