Clean URL


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Description

Clean URLs, also sometimes referred to as RESTful URLs, user-friendly URLs, or search engine-friendly URLs, are Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) intended to improve the usability and accessibility of a website or web service by being immediately and intuitively meaningful to non-expert users. Such URL schemes tend to reflect the conceptual structure of a collection of information and decouple the user interface from a server's internal representation of information. Other reasons for using clean URLs include search engine optimization (SEO), conforming to the representational state transfer (REST) style of software architecture, and ensuring that individual web resources remain consistently at the same URL. This makes the World Wide Web a more stable and useful system, and allows more durable and reliable bookmarking of web resources.Clean URLs also do not contain implementation details of the underlying web application.


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subtopic of Search engine optimization

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of growing the quality and quantity of website traffi...

relates to URL

A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), colloquially termed a web address, is a reference to a web resource...


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