Wednesday, 24 September 2008
google prefers that you don't use URL rewrites....
This is quite an interesting turnaround given that a couple of years ago, Google was actually recommending URL rewrites as best practice. For the discussion, take a look a the search engine round table's take.
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The sites that really spring to mind that use/used that sorta stuff are/was many eCommerce sites, but only really as category filters, so I'm not entirely sure whether that "fits".
TBH, I can understand what Google are saying: don't bother beautifying URLs when nobody's actually going to be using them directly and your variables are self-explanatory.
Ie, various forms (eg searches) probably shouldn't be beautified to the extent a spider cannot figure them out, but non-dynamic document URLs probably should be (eg paths to articles).
Interesting take on it all though: are we (as developers) all slaves to the search engine(s)? :)
So does this basically mean we have to decide between user accessability and Google's?
How do other search engines respond to rewrites?
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