Which link structure works best

[stratocaster]

I am trying to decide how to layout my news articles on my site. Which of the following would be the best option.

1. Mod rewrite so links to articles are domain.com/news/articlename
2. domain.com/news.php?id=1

It seems to me that option 2 would have a higher PR for each news article am I correct?

[agerhart]

I would choose Option #1 for multiple reasons:

- the URL will not contain any query strings if it output like you displayed above.
- each URL will contain the word "news", which may help in your keyword targeting (this depends on what keywords you are targeting, of course).
- each URL will have a topic specific file name, instead of a number assigned to each article (ex: id=1, id=2, id=3, etc.)