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Is there any real SEO benefit from simplifying my PHP urls to shorter, neater urls (with mod_rewrite)? I want to do this mostly to make my site look nicer - but if it's good for search engines, then all the better.
Is there any reason NOT to make shorter URLs?
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it all depends. if you mean the following

To be short, that probably is too short.
This is also short, but not the shortest possible. The SEO benefit is supposed to be minimal. And things like
http://www.test1.com/free-discount-c...ial-offer.html
Isn't going to much for you.

But pages like http://www.test1.com/index.php?actio...lots&lots=more
is not advised.

it's good to have a proper hierarchical structure to your site,
so if someone is on http://www.test1.com/section4/subsectiont5/offer53.html and they delete the offer53 or other part of the url that they can navigate back by themselves.
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