Comments on: 7 Rules for Writing URLs http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/7-rules-for-writing-urls/2043/ Because not everyone can throw thousands of dollars at the 'How do we market ourselves online?' question... Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:57:14 +0000 hourly 1 By: B.M. http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/7-rules-for-writing-urls/2043/#comment-406833 B.M. Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:53:07 +0000 http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/?p=2043#comment-406833 Hi Mikkel, special characters are always a problem, because it depends on the client. Modern browsers, and crawlers like google have no problem, but the "ä" is interpret like "%C3%A4" in the url-encoding. Other encodings interprete this character different, so here begins the problem, because you are duplicating urls, so creating duplicate content. Having much work with redirecting 301 to your destination url with "ä". But some clients produce errors, so 404 is a common scenario, if you are looking at your google webmaster account or server stats. Try to use a "a". The outperformance you are looking for a specific term in german, like "ferienhäuser" in SEO, it is not so much regarding this problem. Why you do not use "ferienhaus"? This singular term is also the root keyword, and many people look for this keyword also. Hi Mikkel,

special characters are always a problem, because it depends on the client. Modern browsers, and crawlers like google have no problem, but the “ä” is interpret like “%C3%A4″ in the url-encoding. Other encodings interprete this character different, so here begins the problem, because you are duplicating urls, so creating duplicate content. Having much work with redirecting 301 to your destination url with “ä”. But some clients produce errors, so 404 is a common scenario, if you are looking at your google webmaster account or server stats. Try to use a “a”. The outperformance you are looking for a specific term in german, like “ferienhäuser” in SEO, it is not so much regarding this problem. Why you do not use “ferienhaus”? This singular term is also the root keyword, and many people look for this keyword also.

]]> By: Mikkel Simonsen http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/7-rules-for-writing-urls/2043/#comment-173054 Mikkel Simonsen Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:10:43 +0000 http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/?p=2043#comment-173054 Use of special characters link ä, ü, ø, å etc. in the url. Was is your take on a url like /ferienhäuser/ or is /ferienh%C4%A4user/ better or /ferienhaeuser/ should I use ä in the url, I can see Wikipedia use %C4%A4 for the ä Use of special characters link ä, ü, ø, å etc. in the url.
Was is your take on a url like /ferienhäuser/
or is /ferienh%C4%A4user/ better
or /ferienhaeuser/
should I use ä in the url, I can see Wikipedia use %C4%A4 for the ä

]]> By: Jack http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/7-rules-for-writing-urls/2043/#comment-164560 Jack Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:19:56 +0000 http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/?p=2043#comment-164560 Agreed with all rules but have one problem - I can't find really good CMS with all of this futures! Can You suggest something? Agreed with all rules but have one problem – I can’t find really good CMS with all of this futures! Can You suggest something?

]]> By: Muiden http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/7-rules-for-writing-urls/2043/#comment-158185 Muiden Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:42:23 +0000 http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/?p=2043#comment-158185 You really shouldn't do that, just look at the Google results for the keyword 'mortgage'. As you can see, the first 20 results all have the term mortgage in the url (either as part of the domain name or page name). So you are really missing out when you use the page id and not a keyword rich page name. You really shouldn’t do that, just look at the Google results for the keyword ‘mortgage’. As you can see, the first 20 results all have the term mortgage in the url (either as part of the domain name or page name). So you are really missing out when you use the page id and not a keyword rich page name.

]]> By: Nick http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/7-rules-for-writing-urls/2043/#comment-157788 Nick Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:26:19 +0000 http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/?p=2043#comment-157788 Do you recommend never using page id #'s as a URL? Such as: www.domain.com/?page_id=18 Do you recommend never using page id #’s as a URL?

Such as:

http://www.domain.com/?page_id=18

]]> By: Johan http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/7-rules-for-writing-urls/2043/#comment-154714 Johan Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:35:07 +0000 http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/?p=2043#comment-154714 You say that http://www.domain.com/clothing/ is best, but wouldn't http://www.domain.com/clothing.html be better or alternatively http://www.domain.com/clothing - without the trailing slash (which seems to be quite popular for seo blogs nowadays)? This way your content would be one level higher in your site structure and so gain importance in the eyes of the spiders. You say that http://www.domain.com/clothing/ is best, but wouldn’t http://www.domain.com/clothing.html be better or alternatively http://www.domain.com/clothing – without the trailing slash (which seems to be quite popular for seo blogs nowadays)?

This way your content would be one level higher in your site structure and so gain importance in the eyes of the spiders.

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