URL rewriting is the process of altering request URLs based on one or more pre-defined rules. You can take advantage of the URL Rewriting Middleware in ASP.NET Core to work with URL redirection as ...

Over at Microsoft’s MSDN magazine, there’s a really interesting article by Bryan Sullivan suggesting a defense-in-depth strategy to protect Web sites and applications from cross-site scripting (XSS) ...

The Yahoo Search Blog announced a new Site Explorer feature that enables webmasters to inform Yahoo about dynamic URLs that might be creating duplicate content issues or crawl barriers. The new ...

Everyone understands the value of a readable URL. But many web applications and websites still output complex ones that no one, even a search engine can understand. Microsoft now makes it easier to ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

Google’s recent blog post recommending that webmasters avoid rewriting dynamic URLs caused a minor furor in the search marketing industry. Reactions ranged from nervous fears that sites with rewritten ...

We've moved the RequestFiltering module and the URLRewrite module ahead of the ISAPIFilter module in the globalModules list in ApplicationHost.config. IIRC, the ISAPIFilter module is what hooks in ...

Google's Webmaster blog posted some dynamic URL advice that essentially says don't try to make dynamic URLs look static. "We might have problems crawling and ranking your dynamic URLs if you try to ...

Ryan Boudreaux discusses the importance of providing user-friendly URLs and offers tips about ways to handle web re-addressing for both static and dynamic URLs. How many times have you tried to ...

In previous posts, I’ve mentioned the importance of having a clean and crawlable website structure for SEO. The reason is simple. Without one, you’re dead in the water from an SEO standpoint. If your ...