Comments on: SEO – Don’t Rewrite Dynamic URLs To Static URLs http://www.drostdesigns.com/seo-don%e2%80%99t-rewrite-dynamic-urls-to-static-urls/ Web Site Design, Hosting and Marketing Tips and Tricks Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:31:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris http://www.drostdesigns.com/seo-don%e2%80%99t-rewrite-dynamic-urls-to-static-urls/#comment-263958 Chris Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:38:38 +0000 http://www.drostdesigns.com/?p=384#comment-263958 Even though the new tactic seems that you should leave your page dynamic looking, I think it is a better practice and serves the visitors better if you implement the built in function of apache mod_rewrite. In this fashion you still have the benefit of the dynamic structure being in place and you also have the benefit of a name that visitors could or would write down or remember. Many of the blog or cms systems now use this to their advantage making such a site easier for both google bot and real life users. So many times as seo professionals and website designers we get caught up in the SEO trap and instead of focusing on the visitor we focus on what we 'think' the bots might want to see. It is much better practice to focus on the needs of the visitor and customer than to focus on what an algorithm is looking for. <a href="http://www.chrismcintoshdesigns.com/node/33" rel="nofollow">Chris McIntosh Designs</a> Even though the new tactic seems that you should leave your page dynamic looking, I think it is a better practice and serves the visitors better if you implement the built in function of apache mod_rewrite. In this fashion you still have the benefit of the dynamic structure being in place and you also have the benefit of a name that visitors could or would write down or remember. Many of the blog or cms systems now use this to their advantage making such a site easier for both google bot and real life users.

So many times as seo professionals and website designers we get caught up in the SEO trap and instead of focusing on the visitor we focus on what we ‘think’ the bots might want to see. It is much better practice to focus on the needs of the visitor and customer than to focus on what an algorithm is looking for.

Chris McIntosh Designs

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