Even though Google now assures us that it has absolutely no issue crawling dynamic URLs, there are huge benefits for altering your .htaccess file to make your dynamic URLs static and clean.
Benefits Of Using Static URLs
- A much greater CTR in the search engines.
- Static URLs includer larger keyword prominence
- Ever tried remembering a dynamic URL recently. Neither have we. Static URLs can be remembered!
- The user viewing the URL knows exactly what is in the page – greater relevancy.
- Search engines deal with static URLs far better than those pesky dynamic URLs
Use our handy little tool generates the correct syntax to be put in your .htaccess file so the URL is displayed as static. If you’d like to find out bit more on mod_rewrite, visit the apache documentation site.