Friendly URLs

[informatica810]

Hi, I have an important news site and I am trying to implement user friendly URLs.

Now, when you click a news in the homepage, it goes to a redirect.php page and then goes to a friendly url.

the question is, It is better to have the friendly URL in the first link or it is the same for the robot having this in the finally url?

Thanks

[CatalystSEM]

We prefer to have it in the first link. You want to avoid redirects as much as possible. I think it was MC who mentioned that you permanently lose 1% of your traffic every time there's a redirect but it works both ways for the crawler.

[MagicDude4Eva]

It's bad to have redirects - especially when all your content does a 301. Why can't you sort this out via rewrite rules or through your system directly?

[informatica810]

Ha, I am dealing that with my programmer right now and I want to be shure.

Thanks