+ Reply to Thread
Results 1 to 2 of 2

Thread: SEO - short URLs vs longer PHP URLs

  1. #1
    niky is offline Frontpage User niky will become famous soon enough
    Join Date
    Jul 2008
    Posts
    3

    Default SEO - short URLs vs longer PHP URLs

    Is there any real SEO benefit from simplifying my PHP urls to shorter, neater urls (with mod_rewrite)? I want to do this mostly to make my site look nicer - but if it's good for search engines, then all the better.
    Is there any reason NOT to make shorter URLs?
    _________________________

    Last edited by blacknight; 10-04-2009 at 08:55 AM. Reason: signature rule violation

  2. #2
    paul's Avatar
    paul is offline ninja SEO paul has much to be proud of paul has much to be proud of paul has much to be proud of paul has much to be proud of paul has much to be proud of paul has much to be proud of paul has much to be proud of paul has much to be proud of paul has much to be proud of paul has much to be proud of
    Join Date
    Dec 2006
    Location
    .de
    Posts
    1,277

    Default

    it all depends. if you mean the following

    To be short, that probably is too short.
    This is also short, but not the shortest possible. The SEO benefit is supposed to be minimal. And things like
    http://www.test1.com/free-discount-c...ial-offer.html
    Isn't going to much for you.

    But pages like http://www.test1.com/index.php?actio...lots&lots=more
    is not advised.

    it's good to have a proper hierarchical structure to your site,
    so if someone is on http://www.test1.com/section4/subsectiont5/offer53.html and they delete the offer53 or other part of the url that they can navigate back by themselves.

+ Reply to Thread

Similar Threads

  1. Signatures no longer direct links?
    By dude in forum Forum Feedback, Development and Competitions
    Replies: 4
    Last Post: 04-04-2007, 05:17 PM
  2. My blog is no longer listed by MS
    By Cormac in forum Search Engine Optimisation
    Replies: 5
    Last Post: 21-12-2006, 11:55 PM
  3. Shorter URLs with 301 redirect
    By blacknight in forum Webmaster Discussion
    Replies: 1
    Last Post: 31-08-2006, 09:08 PM
  4. Yahoo! Express Submit No Longer Available
    By blacknight in forum Search Engine Optimisation
    Replies: 6
    Last Post: 21-08-2006, 02:52 PM

Tags for this Thread

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts

Search Engine Optimization by vBSEO

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64