CSharp UrlHelper Extensions to Manipulate Query Strings

public static class UrlHelperExtensions
{
    public static string ModifyQueryString(this UrlHelper helper, NameValueCollection updates, IEnumerable<string> removes)
    {
        return ModifyQueryString(helper, null, updates, removes);
    }

    public static string ModifyQueryString(this UrlHelper helper, string url, NameValueCollection updates, IEnumerable<string> removes)
    {
        NameValueCollection query;
        var request = helper.RequestContext.HttpContext.Request;

        if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(url))
        {
            url = request.Url.AbsolutePath;
            query = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(request.QueryString.ToString());
        }
        else
        {
            var urlParts = url.Split('?');
            url = urlParts[0];
            if (urlParts.Length > 1)
            {
                query = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(urlParts[1]);
            }
            else
            {
                query = new NameValueCollection();
            }
        }

        updates = updates ?? new NameValueCollection();
        foreach (string key in updates.Keys)
        {
            query.Set(key, updates[key]);
        }

        removes = removes ?? new List<string>();
        foreach (string param in removes)
        {
            query.Remove(param);
        }

        if (query.HasKeys())
        {
            return string.Format("{0}?{1}", url, query.ToString());
        }
        else
        {
            return url;
        }
    }

    public static string UpdateQueryParam(this UrlHelper helper, string param, object value)
    {
        return ModifyQueryString(helper, new NameValueCollection { { param, value.ToString() } }, null);
    }

    public static string UpdateQueryParam(this UrlHelper helper, string url, string param, object value)
    {
        return ModifyQueryString(helper, url, new NameValueCollection { { param, value.ToString() } }, null);
    }

    public static string RemoveQueryParam(this UrlHelper helper, string param)
    {
        return ModifyQueryString(helper, null, new List<string> { param });
    }

    public static string UpdateQueryParams(this UrlHelper helper, NameValueCollection updates)
    {
        return ModifyQueryString(helper, updates, null);
    }

    public static string RemoveQueryParams(this UrlHelper helper, List<string> removes)
    {
        return ModifyQueryString(helper, null, removes);
    }
}

//
// Example
//

Url.UpdateQueryParam("page", 4);

Url.RemoveQueryParam("q");