Sure we have heard Google say in the past that it can handle and index dynamic URLs but now I read on the Google Blog that they prefer sites to use dynamic rather then clean static URLs.

• Clean/Static URL - example.com/archive/january.htm
• Dynamic URL - example.com/detail?id=31 

From the Google post:

Does that mean I should avoid rewriting dynamic URLs at all? That's our recommendation, unless your rewrites are limited to removing unnecessary parameters, or you are very diligent in removing all parameters that could cause problems.

Well at first I found this rather upsetting since this site has clean URLs and so do all of the other sites I manage. I don't want to have to start from scratch. So I started doing some Google Searches for info on the topic. Here are the best ones I found:

• Stemkoski - news and views
• Webmaster World - forum conversations

I found a comment in the above forum most relative, "I like the fact their blog has rewritten URLs on. "
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/dynamic-urls-vs-stati...