SEO friendly URL's - pretty URL's or mod_rewrite - whats best?

[stevegos]

Hello

I'm just wondering whats the best route to go with the SEO friendly URL's...

By default you get the index.php?page=xxx

And I understand that some search engine spider don't like the ? question mark in the URL

using pretty URL's you get index.php/this-page/index.php  (although the index.php at the end does not display in the browser)

And using mode rewrite you get /thisfolder/page.htm

So I think that the most traditional and thus most accessible URL is the last one. I know that Google doesn't have problems with the default ? URL but what about other search engines?

So forget which URL visually looks the best, which one is the best for SEO.

Thanks, Steve

[Pierre M.]

My opinion : having user friendly URLs makes them bot friendly.

Pierre M.

[oneocean]

And using mode rewrite you get /thisfolder/page.htm

So I think that the most traditional and thus most accessible URL is the last one.

I'd agree that the mode_rewrite option (ie. "/thisfolder/page.htm") gives you the most SEO friendly URL.

~oneocean