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Yes, just noticed this also. I'm sure the guys who work on Wiki & the likes of the BBC, The Guardian are not just using this method for the sake of it, very interesting indeed. Although noticed NYTimes user underlines

Thanks Dan, this makes total sense. Kind Regards

Hi Ryan / Ramp, Yes, I think so also, and watching that video from Matt Cutts confirmed that, it just makes sense plus it looks nice So /conditions/allergies/food/ it is, now i can concentrate on producing great content. Thanks again

Yes, once you have done your redirects make sure all internal links point to the new URLs Leave the old page to exist so that link juice is allowed to flow from backlinks. Leave for at least a year. Probably longer in the case of bookmarks.

Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.php RewriteRule ^(.)index.php$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Hi Gary, Here's some code from an htaccess file I've used before that solves the issue you've got with index.php at the end of all your urls: #remove /index.php and ensure admin works okay RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/administrator RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.php\ HTTP/ RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ /$1 [R=301,L] notice the line that contains ^/administrator , in Joomla, admin login is usuall on http://site.com/administrator/index.php so, removing the index.php from the admin url would prevent any access to the admin screens! If your cms has a similar url, be sure to replace 'administrator' with the relevant url.