Max Length of urls

Hi All,

What is the max length of a url should be that a search engine could crawl and index ? Is there any guideline for that ?

 

2 kilometers!

No but the maximum URL length is 2,083 characters in Internet Explorer. Don't know what the SE's limits is.

 

The answer to this i guess depends on the reason for asking. If its totally technical then probably mammut's answer above is a good enough guideline. If you are asking in relation to SEO (ie the forum the question is posted) then i wouldn't advise a URL of 2083 characters.

I would tend to approach URL's in a similar way to page titles, try and keep them as short and keyword rich as possible. I would think that a URL like:

http://www.domain.com/blue-widgets.html 

Code (markup):

would be better than...

http://www.domain.com/a-great-company-selling-some-well-known-blue-widgets-for-everyone-to-buy-at-great-prices-and-a-cherry-on-top.html

Code (markup):

at ranking for the keyword "blue widgets" (given all other things are equal)

 

max length of a url should be 14 characters.

 

that better max lenght of url should be 15-20 more than that sounds like your reading a sentence

 

anything that makes sense to a human is a better url.

 

It doesn not matter whether your URL has length of 15 or 150; Google will crawl and index it. But its much better to have short url otherwise it does look like a sentence as dplgngr said.

 

I think google algorithm will have some limit on URL length, which will be different from IE limit.

 

27 characters is when you start getting discredited i think