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CEO at Econsultancy
22 September 2006 18:43pm
More on all this at http://www.e-consultancy.com/forum/103812-re-url-naming-rules.html - see the entire thread. Some useful stuff there including links to other good sites / articles.
Ashley Friedlein
CEO
E-consultancy.com
CEO at Segala
24 September 2006 13:35pm
There are a number of benefits associated with short URIs, e.g. typing a URI on a mobile device can be difficult at the best of times.
However, as Ashley points out, there are some SEO benefits when adding keywords to the string. So, my advice is to keep them short and meaningful.
http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/#bpgroupnavlinks is the most appropriate link I could find in the best practices document to help explain why short URIs are important.
Everyone assumes visitors will use a desktop browser to access the Web. While this may be true 'today', the 'Web on the move' will soon become the norm. So, as I like to put it, you should aim to "measure twice, cut once and render everywhere".
About the W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium is responsible for creating standards and best practices such as HTML, XML and the Web Accessibility Initiative Guidelines. It's also managed by Tim Berners-Lee, the guy who invented the Web.
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Paul
Segala, CEO
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Managing Director at True Clarity
01 November 2006 06:58am
A simple example of why readable url's work so well is to find this very forum thread on google by using the words "forum readable url".
RE: Readable URL's | Forum | E-consultancy.comTop experts discuss the latest thinking and best practice on e-commerce and internet marketing topics including search marketing, affiliate marketing, ...
www.e-consultancy.com/forum/104657-re-readable-url-s.html - 36k -
You can see how the bold words in the url have been used and how this is putting the page at the top of the results. Powerful stuff this.
Andy.
http://www.trueclarity.co.uk/
Principal at myITdirector
01 November 2006 14:37pm
Online Marketer at Large
01 November 2006 15:28pm
On 14:37:02 1 November 2006 DavidGB wrote:
Principal at myITdirector
01 November 2006 17:12pm