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PiTheNumber
PiTheNumber

Reputation: 23542

How to write parameters in url?

Concerning search engine optimization I wonder what the best practice is to write parameters in a url. Should I place parameter names? Does an id value has a negative effect on search engines?

Here are some options that come to mind:

  1. /project/pid/171/name/my_funny_name
  2. /project/171/my_funny_name
  3. /project/my_funny_name

Upvotes: 1

Views: 190

Answers (3)

fab4am
fab4am

Reputation: 56

Having an id value in your url won't have a negative effect, but you should definitely add words before or after your id for SEO. What I personnaly like is trying to have a "logical" structure in the url, with id at the beginning, like this : 

/123_my-category/456_my-great-stuff

Concerning the underscore, you should rather use "-", as it is considered as the word separator while _ is more for lisibility, but it's like having the words tied to each other.

Upvotes: 0

user20232359723568423357842364
user20232359723568423357842364

Reputation: 4634

In the url, you want AT MINIMUM, the keywords that people will be searching for to find the page in question. The id's, in your case, should not have a negative affect.

Google SEO

Upvotes: 0

user133408
user133408

Reputation:

Good rule is less params is better. If you need numerical id, 2nd option is quite good, if you force my_funny_name part to be unique, you may rely only on this as id. However keep in mind, that if you change name, url will be broken.

Also remember to avoid double names for same content, like /project/171/my_funny_name and /project/171/my_old_name. Try to use <link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com/project/171/my_funny_name">

Upvotes: 1

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