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What Does Static URL Mean?

A static URL is a URL that does not change depending on input from a remote database or server, but stays the same with each page load. Static URLs are the norm for pages that do not contain interactive elements based on the results of a web administrator’s remote data.

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Techopedia Explains Static URL

Search engines often prioritize static URLs over dynamic URLs. As a result, some Web administrators pursue "URL rewriting" in order to make dynamic URLs more attractive.

While a dynamic URL may not have an advantage in terms of search engine visibility, these kinds of URLs enable all sorts of functionality related to passing data or commands through a remote server. Web administrators who specialize in this kind of interactivity offer businesses and organizations many different ways to make a Web page do more than just display information.

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Margaret Rouse
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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.