yeah I know. but it's not up to me unfortunately :/ if it was I'd be spending money all over the place to get things done properly and have a good base to start from. ok not all over the place but you know what I mean. I need a good base to start from! Anyway.

and since I am just a n00b I have to ask to set my mind at ease. mod_rewrite is basically redirecting right? how is that good for SEO? for the bots I mean. For the humans I can see. But from what I've read redirecting is bad minus those few that are good like if you want to exclude sites from being indexed and having 40something redirects.

I hope that made sense.