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Old 11-10-2008, 04:53 PM  
J.P.
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Originally Posted by d-null View Post
guess we should try to find the link so that everyone can interpret it as they like, but it seemed to me when I read it that they were responding to the fact that so many people worry about mod rewriting wordpress urls to supposedly be more search engine friendly and they were trying to put the point across that it didn't make any difference.... I could have misinterpreted their intention though
Somebody up there just posted a link to it. I think the main problem is people are reading this party only:

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Does that mean I should avoid rewriting dynamic URLs at all?
That's our recommendation, ...
But obviously they should read on:

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... unless your rewrites are limited to removing unnecessary parameters, or you are very diligent in removing all parameters that could cause problems.
In the article there are a few examples of poorly rewritten URLs which could cause crawling problems.

A comment to this article that I like very much is this one:

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Ready for the controversy? I think this is a ridiculous article coming from you guys! To say we shouldn't rewrite URLs because we may rewrite irresponsibly. Seriously?

That is like saying people shouldn't drive because if you do it wrong, you may cause an accident. Come on. ...
I couldn't agree more, what about you?
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