SEO Tips # 4 : Use SEO friendly URLs

This is most important when you begin using a server-side programming language such as PHP to create web pages. If you use techniques like this: " http://www.example.com/index.php?p=about ", then there needs to be some changes. Search engines really don’t like URL’s like this and sometimes won’t even follow them. Using apache mod rewrites, you can easily rewrite your URL’s to be more SEO friendly. The link above could be changed to look like " http://www.example.com/about.html " or " http://www.example.com/about/ ". Either one of these URL’s would make the search engine much happier and they don’t even require any changes to your current pages (other than changing your links to match the new URL format) ...