Tools for SEO: Search Engine Friendly URLs - Static Pages
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The first and most obvious way you could do this would be to rename every page in your site to reflect a static URL with keywords and make those pages static. If you have only a few pages in your site, then you probably don’t need a dynamic site in the first place, so this would be fine. But if you have a dynamic site that produces hundreds or even thousands of URLs, then doing this by hand is an unreasonable task to undertake. So you will either need to figure out a different way to accomplish the same thing, or find a tool to do it for you.
Using .htaccess
In the next couple of items I’ll explain a bit further. The .htaccess file is basically a set of instructions in a simple text file with the extension .htaccess (there is no file name) on the server to give parameters to the browser when a request is made, put quite simply. More specifically, it is a web server configuration file that contains commands known by the server that tell the server how to behave in certain instances. The place you would utilize mod_rewrite or other redirect-type tools available to you will most likely be in your .htaccess file.
Some of the most common uses of an htaccess file include the capability to restrict access to certain files or directories on the Internet (or intranet) through password protection. Additionally htaccess is used to automatically redirect users, ban or allow certain IP addresses access to the server, and to call a custom designed 404 error page rather than the standard error 404 file that usually appears in your browser. Apache Web servers and other NCSA compliant Web servers can use htaccess.
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