Category Archives: Considerations

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URL Quote #4: An utter disaster to disable the URL

Posted on September 23, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

“Given that social filtering is one of the most powerful mechanisms for information discovery on the Internet, it is an utter disaster to disable the URL as an addressing mechanism. “ -Jakob Nielsen on “Why Frames Suck (Most of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Champions, Frames, URL Quotes, Virality | Leave a comment

Why URL design matters in email

Posted on March 30, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

I’ve long believed email provides one of the better justifications for good URL design. Having a well designed URL structure inspires a user to have faith in a site’s URL integrity making it more likely then will email a URL … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Practices, Champions, Commentary, Email, SEO | 2 Comments

PageRank

Posted on February 26, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

SEO: Illuminating the value of URL design If you’ve read many of our other posts here at The Well Designed URLs Initiative, you know that we are strong advocates for User-Centered URL Design as well as for URL Literacy. It’s … Continue reading →

Posted in All Organizations, Basic, Framework Developers, Hosting Providers, Infrastructure Providers, Open-Source Participants, Overview, Search Engines, SEO, SEO Consultants, Teachers, URIs, Web App Providers, Web Developers | 8 Comments

URLs for Multilingual Web Sites

Posted on February 5, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

Another URLian has appeared: Brad Fults. Brad just added himself to our wiki and became a signatory; thanks Brad! Better yet, on his user page on our wiki he linked to his post Designing URLs for Multilingual Web Sites; execellent … Continue reading →

Posted in Champions, Commentary, International, Internet Professionals, Website Owners | 1 Comment