URL Rewrite

A technique used to help make URLs more unique and descriptive to help facilitate better sitewide indexing by major search engines.

See also:

• Apache Module mod_rewrite - Apache module used to rewrite URLs on sites hosted on an Apache server.
• ISAPI Rewrite - software to rewrite URLs on sites hosted on a Microsoft Internet Information Server.

A technique used to help make web site URLs more user and search engine friendly.