URL Capitalization?

Discussion in 'Google' started by ssteve, Aug 27, 2006.

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  1. #1
    If you capitalize the your urls like
    www.MyGreatDomain.com/something.html

    Does google present the url in SERP's still capitalized. If so, it would help greatly with human readability and branding.
     
    ssteve, Aug 27, 2006 IP
  2. KC TAN

    KC TAN Well-Known Member

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    I do not think so.. google displays the urls in small caps..
     
    KC TAN, Aug 27, 2006 IP
  3. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #3
    Most web server sill just redirect a URL like that to be all lowercase. The one you used as an example does a 302 redirect to the lowercase version:

    [b]Titan:~ shawn$[/b] [i]curl -I http://www.MyGreatDomain.com/something.html[/i]
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:36:15 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.4
Location: /
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
    Code (markup):
     
    digitalpoint, Aug 27, 2006 IP
  4. NetMidWest

    NetMidWest Peon

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    Sorry Shawn, but that seems to be an error page that is redirecting, probably due to using an absolute url within the .htaccess on a php based site. Using a relative url would solve the problem and give a 404 error.

    Checking the domain itself you get:
    #1 Server Response: http://www.MyGreatDomain.com/
HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 05:50:43 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.4
Set-Cookie: source=1; expires=Mon, 28-Aug-2006 07:50:43 GMT
Set-Cookie: source_d=mygreatdomain.com; expires=Mon, 28-Aug-2006 07:50:43 GMT
P3P: CP="NOI COR NID ADMa DEVa PSAa PSDa STP NAV DEM STA PRE"
Content-Length: 771
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
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    But I think Google would convert it to all lowercase.
     
    NetMidWest, Aug 27, 2006 IP
  5. Link.ezer.com

    Link.ezer.com Peon

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    all domains and sub-domain are showing small caps..

    for your question: URLs shall include folder name

    http:/ / all. small. caps. domain. com/ Folders Caps OK/

    example: "dmoz.com/Arts/Movies/"
     
    Link.ezer.com, Aug 27, 2006 IP
  6. Sphinx

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    Capitalization does not matter in domain names (unless somebody writes a proprietary nameserver that does not comply with RFC 2396).
    Therefor, visitors (including GoogleBot) arn't able to detect any capital letters in a domain name.
     
    Sphinx, Aug 28, 2006 IP