: Removing "Dirty URLs" I have a site that apparently has "dirty URLs". For example a URL that I have goes something like this: www.website.com/article?articleID=2 or something along the lines of

@Voss4911412

You should not just remove the ID because it's important to know which article we are opening, you should rewrite it using .htaccess's mod_rewrite.

What will you rewrite it to depends on the nature of your website and your strategic choices, it can be just:
website.com/title-goes-here
Or if the title of the article can be found elsewhere, you can make it:
website.com/title-goes-here-id
Or even:
website.com/category-name/title-goes-here-id

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