Friendly URLs

[Anon]

Hi,

I have a website with pages named:

www.mydomain.com/index.php?foo=1&bar=2 etc

What I'd like to do is set up "friendly" URL's for these not so pleasant looking addresses. E.g. in the example above, the friendly URL would be:

www.mydomain.com/foo/bar.html

However, I don't want to set up a basic redirect to the nasty url from the friendly url - I want the friendly url to be in the browsers address bar at all times.

This is basically because:

a) I'd like to give my users nice URLs to remember and
b) I've heard that using a redirect returns an Error 30X when the redirected page is returned. If this happens, I'm led to believe search engines will index the page redirected to. Unfortunatley, in my case, nearly every page is generated from index.php and search engines will only register this once - not for distinct articles.

Any help would be gratefully appreciated

Thanks

Paul

[Anon]

There is an article here called 'Building Sites With Search Engines In Mind' or something like that. It describes how to create friendly URL's for your visitors and URL's that search engines will capture.