Which SEO URL?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Galaxian, Dec 21, 2008.

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  1. #1
    I am at a confusion point when I try to figure out which URL would be more effective for SEO.

    news/category/id/article-title/
    news/category/id-article-title/
    news/category/id-article-title.html
    news/category/id/article-title.html

    Which is the best for seo? The id must be inclusive because that's how it's identified, to state the obvious.

    Also - how long can a URL be before it's rejected and has no SEO value?
     
    Galaxian, Dec 21, 2008 IP
  2. debach

    debach Banned

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    #2
    this one in my opinion.

     
    debach, Dec 22, 2008 IP
  3. goscript

    goscript Prominent Member

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    I'd go for news/category/id-article-title.html

    Sometimes if using news/category/id/article-title.html , SE bots will try to index news/category/id/ as well which will raise a 404 error.
     
    goscript, Dec 22, 2008 IP
  4. neiljhonson

    neiljhonson Peon

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    If you can remove Id from url that will be best because url should be uniform there should not any special characters. If here id is just a numeric number(with out special character) then i will go with news/category/id/article-title.html because this will give you whole url information with title.
     
    neiljhonson, Dec 22, 2008 IP
  5. Hersheys

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    I think this is better news/category/id/article-title.html but if you can shorten the url it would be good.
     
    Hersheys, Dec 22, 2008 IP
  6. GokuDBZ

    GokuDBZ Well-Known Member

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    #6
    Yes I go with neiljhonson's idea,
    you should have .html at the end because, Google Loves it ^_^
     
    GokuDBZ, Dec 22, 2008 IP
  7. falguni1

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    none of the above.

    news/category/article-title.html
    or
    news/article-title.html
     
    falguni1, Dec 22, 2008 IP
  8. crivion

    crivion Notable Member

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    My recommendation is to keep your friendly rewrite as file would be in the root directory, google will rate the files in root dir /www or /public_html near index main file better than subdirectories one
     
    crivion, Dec 22, 2008 IP
  9. Alan Smith

    Alan Smith Active Member

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    hi,

    i suggest to - news/category/id/article-title/
     
    Alan Smith, Dec 22, 2008 IP
  10. Galaxian

    Galaxian Active Member

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    or perhaps news/category/article-id.html ?
     
    Galaxian, Dec 22, 2008 IP