Clean URLs (and/or URIs) are URLs, which do not abandon anything over the used technology. One sees being missing e.g. none "“is"” or to "“cgi"” in the path, and even the file endings (e.g. htm, HTML, php, pl, shtml etc.). Or differently said - everything which users is not interested completely omitted.

A good example is Wikipedia. The URLs is always developed according to the following pattern:

<sprache> .wikipedia.org/wiki/ <artikel>

Thus for example:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

Technology

If one uses Apache, one can realize "“clean"” URLs via mod_rewrite. This module makes it possible to produce Aliases for URLs. One could furnish it for example in such a way that after inquiry "“foo/bar"” the same result obtains like after inquiry q=foo/bar"”.

Improves Web content management of systems (like e.g. Drupal + path_auto module) or Wikis settle practical-prove perfectly automatically.

Advantages

• External ones left (also Bookmarks) on the side are substantially longer valid, since they do not have to change any longer, if one changes or completely exchanges the infrastructure
• Search machine optimization, because the URLs is more meaningful (higher density of relevant words)
• Users can note the URLs more easily (and file dung rate mirror-image moose to fall also away)
• Users can evaluate the relevance of the URL faster (meaningful URL is usually rather clicked as a kryptische)

Related links

• Cool URIs don't CHANGEs (English)

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• Content with Style: Clean URLs for a better search engine ranking
  Content with Style is a web technique blog run by Matthias Willerich, Mike Stenhouse and Pascal Opitz.


• Making "clean" URLs with Apache and PHP | evolt.org
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• Towards Next Generation URLs :: Port80 Software
  Simple cleaning usually remaps the , & , and + symbols in a URL to more readily ... Numerous articles have been written about the need for clean URLs. ...