Comments on: Google’s Opinion on Crawling Dynamic URLs vs. Static URLs

By: danny

danny — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:19:43 +0000

Very interesting article and very true as well. One of the major plus points I see is when people change technology, usually URL structure changes and that may cause broken links internal and externally.

However, if you’re a good webmaster, I believe it is the webmaster’s responsibilities to ensure that old links are 301 redirected to the new links or to provide an informative 404 page. Also, I do believe that the aesthetic factor does come into play.

No one knows what on earth does ?pid=345&c=seo as opposed to /seo/url-structures. It improves usability and also is aesthetically “nice” which makes it easier to remember.

That being said, I totally agree with what W3C says too.

By: Figment Engine

Figment Engine — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:08:34 +0000

nice post, one point – you said:
“However, it is somewhat popular now to exclude the extensions for aesthetic reasons and to avoid confusion between all the different types of extensions (which can be hard to remember!).”

it’s not for aesthetic reasons, it so that when you change the technology running your website that the URLs don’t change, – see Cool URIs don’t change

Figment Engine

By: Palapple

Palapple — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:59:13 +0000

Thanks for sharing. Search engine optimization is indeed one of the most crucial areas in Internet marketing, it is a perfect bridge between technology and business.