URLs

[fromthe5]

Hi Folks. I hope I'm posting in the right place. I'm a basic HTML type of person who has a question about urls. I'm doing SEO on a site that's done in perl. My problem is that Google won't index pages with urls like:

http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/boxes.cgi?product_id=193&node_id=9387

(example)
My question is: Can the urls be changed to something like:

http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/blue-widgets

The webmaster for the site doesn't seem to know and I need to do something to get all pages currently named like the example, into the index, but I have no clue as to how to name them so they will still work and be Google friendly at the same time. Any suggestions?

 

[ishnid]

If your site runs on Apache, you could use mod_rewrite to do what you're looking for. Try posting in the Apache forum if so.

 

[fromthe5]

Thanks ishnid.