How To: Use URL Rewriting in ASP.NET

URL rewriting is the practice publishing a cleaner URL for your ASP.NET pages. There are many reasons you might want to do this, including search engine optimization and human readability. Search engines actively try to ascertain information about the contents of a page based on the URL, and providing common keywords in it will increase your page ranking. This article will show you how to use URL rewriting to hide your ugly URL while retaining the power and structure of your existing ASP.NET application by using URL rewriting.