Enable Clean URL’s with 1and1 hosting
One of the first tasks when performing a brand new installation of Drupal is to ensure that clean urls are enabled in order to remove the horrible “?q=” from the urls in the site. Having a site without clean urls is not only bad for SEO purposes, but creates an extra barrier for users who might remember a certain page on your site. When they return they have to remember to type http://www.example.com/?q=page_title instead of the format that they are used to. (more…)