Thanks for your comment. I think the post, back in March '04, came as a result of my work building a blogging engine using Filemaker. Back then, Filemaker URLs really were 'bad' and no indexable, for whatever reason. I spent lots of time investigating at the time, so I moved over to Drupal.
I suppose the same anxiety pursued this move, hence the blog post. However, I'm glad I looked at the 'clean URL' technology because, as you say, pages are better indexed because of words in the URL. Are you sure words in the URL aren't given more favour in Google searches? How can we test / prove this?
Jonathan
Hi Rog
Thanks for your comment. I think the post, back in March '04, came as a result of my work building a blogging engine using Filemaker. Back then, Filemaker URLs really were 'bad' and no indexable, for whatever reason. I spent lots of time investigating at the time, so I moved over to Drupal.
I suppose the same anxiety pursued this move, hence the blog post. However, I'm glad I looked at the 'clean URL' technology because, as you say, pages are better indexed because of words in the URL. Are you sure words in the URL aren't given more favour in Google searches? How can we test / prove this?
Jonathan