Mod_rewrite Is it Necessary?

[macca]

Hi,

Is it necesarry to use mod-rewrite to change my URL's to more friendly
URL's?

I mean, i know i dont have to, but will this affect my SEO?

or

have spiders adapted to make this no longer necesarry now?

[Michael Fesser]

Re: Mod_rewrite Is it Necessary?

..oO(macca)

>Is it necesarry to use mod-rewrite to change my URL's to more friendly
>URL's?
>
>I mean, i know i dont have to, but will this affect my SEO?

Not necessarily, but it might help a bit if some keywords appear in the
URLs.

>have spiders adapted to make this no longer necesarry now?

I care more about my visitors than about SEs. I prefer readable
("speaking") , hierarchical URLs, so IMHO a URL like

http://en.example.com/category/subcategory/product/details

is much more user friendly than something like

http://example.com/?module=products&cid=42&pid=23&details=1&lang=en

Micha