Thursday, January 31, 2008

Tips how to make a Good URL?

A Good URL have the below given features:

a) It should be explanatory

b) It should be easy to type

c) It should be memorable

Need of good URL?

a) A dynamic URL is not Google’s friendly.

b) URL with keyword is good.

c) Short and memorable URL is best.

d) Short but descriptive URL give more significance to selected keywords.

Top 10 URL considerations:

  1. For website domain, should it be:
    • http://abc.com, or
    • http://abc.com?
  1. For the main blog, should it be:
  1. For category:
    1. http://category.abc.com or
    1. http://abc.com/category?
  1. The URL should be:
    1. Ugly URL with (? And a query, ex: /?p=123), or
    1. Good URL/something/something-smaller?
  1. The Good URL should have:

a. With trailing slash (/),

b. orWithout trailing slash?

  1. With %post%, should it be:
    1. Post name, or
    1. Post id?

7 Good URL selections for post:

    1. /%post%, or
    1. /%category%/%post%, or
    1. /archives/%post%, or
    1. /blog/%post%, or
    1. /yyyy/mm/dd/%post%?
  1. Good URL for category:
    1. /category/%category%, or
    1. /cat/%category%, or
    1. /type/%category%, or
    1. /group/%category%, or
    1. /%category% ?
  1. With %category%, should it be:
    1. Category name, or
    1. Category id ?
  1. The prefix 1st level selections:
    1. Singular (ex: category), or
    1. plural (ex: categories)
  1. Good URL for tag:
    1. /tag/%tag%, or
    1. /tags/%tag%

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