Friendly URL

Friendly URL:

Definition:

A friendly URL is a Web address that is easy to read and best explain the content of the web page.

These kind of URLs are “friendly” in two ways.

1) It will help the visitors to remember the specific web page.

2) It will helpful for search engines and describe the pages to search engines.

USER FRIENDLY URL AND BAD URL:

Friendly URL that is short and easy to remember is considered “user-friendly URL”

For example, a company may use the URL “www.[domain].com/support/” for the support

BAD URL:

Bad URL that is long and difficult to remember is considered “Bad URL”

For example, “www.[domain].com/section/support/default.aspx?id=1&lang=en“

SEO FRIENDLY URLs OR SEARCH ENGINE FRIENDLY URLs:

Some webmasters are more concerned with creating SEO friendly URLs. These URLs have important keywords that describe the page.Including keywords in the URL can help boost the ranking of the page. Therefore, this strategy has become a popular aspect of search engine optimization or SEO.

For example, a site that includes tips for “Friendly URL” may have a URL like “www.[domain].com/Friendly-URL.html“.

TIPS MUST FOLLOW WHEN CREATING A WEBSITE’S URLS:

Tips No 1. KEEP IT AS SHORT AS POSSIBLE

Short and simple URLs is easier to copy, paste, and remember in the rare case they were not bookmarked, and will be fully visible in search engine’s result. Should be no more than 98 characters and must remove stop words

Example:

www.[domain].com/category/computer-definition/internet-terms/friendly-url

to

www.[domain].com/friendly-url

Tips No 2. TARGET KEYWORD OF THE PAGE MUST USE IN URL

If your web page is targeting a specific word, term or phrase, make sure to include it in the URL.

Example:

If your post is about friendly url then avoid this kind of url “www.[domain].com/url13149”

and try to create some thing like this “www.[domain].com/friendly-url”

 

Tips No 3. USE THE DESCRIPTIVE URLS

Rather than random numbers or meaningless figures must use some real words.

Example:

www.[domain].com/internet/post?23434

should be rewritten as

www.[domain].com/internet/url

Tips No 4. MUST USE HYPHENS TO SEPARATE WORDS

Web browser interpret separators or space accurately like “_”, “+”, or “%20” so use the hyphen “-” character to separate words in a long URL.

Example:

www.[domain].com/internet/friendly url

should be rewritten as

www.[domain].com/internet/friendly-url

!important: Never use space in url, it is helpful for hackers

Tips No 5. USE LOWERCASE LETTERS

Some search engines are case sensitive so www.[domain].com/cat and www.[domain].com/Cat can be seen as different pages.

and it will make visitors confuse

Tips No 6. REMOVE THE STOP WORDS

Remove the stop words they may make urls too long

Example:

www.[domain].com/category/the-cats-and-the-dogs-names

should be www.[domain].com/category/cats-dogs-names

Tips No 7. URL SHOULD NOT MORE THAN 1 LEVEL DEEP

Try to create direct links with out any depth “www.[domain].com/page-name” (best)

if it is necessary any depth then go only one level deep “www.[domain].com/category/page-name” (Good)

don’t go too deep, avoid these kind of depth “www.[domain].com/category1/category2/page-name” (Bad)

 

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