http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/28/sorry-mark-url-design-does-matter/ Advocating User-Centered URL Design Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:17:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/28/sorry-mark-url-design-does-matter/#comment-2011 Devon Young Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:13:21 +0000 http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/28/sorry-mark-url-design-does-matter/#comment-2011 I read somewhere that it's SEO practice to design a readable URL. This is easily seen when you do a search in Google, and the search results will highlight any of your search terms in the URL's of the results. Obviously, Google looks at what is in the URL itself and not just the page. I can't remember where I've read this, but I thought it was well known, but apparently Mark doesn't know about it so there's probably a lot of people who don't know. I'm sure a quick search would find a few sites that talk about this aspect of URL's. I read somewhere that it’s SEO practice to design a readable URL. This is easily seen when you do a search in Google, and the search results will highlight any of your search terms in the URL’s of the results. Obviously, Google looks at what is in the URL itself and not just the page. I can’t remember where I’ve read this, but I thought it was well known, but apparently Mark doesn’t know about it so there’s probably a lot of people who don’t know. I’m sure a quick search would find a few sites that talk about this aspect of URL’s.

]]> http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/28/sorry-mark-url-design-does-matter/#comment-2038 Mike Schinkel Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:00:03 +0000 http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/28/sorry-mark-url-design-does-matter/#comment-2038 Devon: Thanks for the comment. You are absolutely correct. There is much discussion of URL design in SEO circles. Unfortunately, those fixated on SEO sometimes go way overboard and ignore the usability aspect, but then most of those guys are search-engine spammers anyway. Devon: Thanks for the comment. You are absolutely correct. There is much discussion of URL design in SEO circles. Unfortunately, those fixated on SEO sometimes go way overboard and ignore the usability aspect, but then most of those guys are search-engine spammers anyway.

]]> http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/28/sorry-mark-url-design-does-matter/#comment-21778 Questions On URL Design | iface thoughts Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:19:42 +0000 http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/28/sorry-mark-url-design-does-matter/#comment-21778 [...] knowledge and confidence with REST and the philosophy behind it. With resource as the protagonist, URL design is an important activity. Typically, well designed URLs convey more than location of a resource. [...] […] knowledge and confidence with REST and the philosophy behind it. With resource as the protagonist, URL design is an important activity. Typically, well designed URLs convey more than location of a resource. […]

]]>