19-04-2024 10:14:55 am

 Trick765 Improve The Structure of Your URLs



Creating descriptive categories and filenames for the documents on your website can not only help you keep your site better organized, but it could also lead to better crawling of your documents by search engines. Also, it can create easier, "friendlier" URLs for those that want to link to your content. Visitors may be intimidated by extremely long and cryptic URLs that contain few recognizable words.


Example:

http://funmaza.cu.cc/ folder1 /98643 /a9 /00234.html


URLs like these can be confusing and unfriendly. Also, users may believe that a portion of the URL is unnecessary, especially if the URL shows many unrecognizable parameters. They might leave off a part, breaking the link. Some users might link to your page using the URL of that page as the anchor text. If your URL contains relevant words, this provides users and search engines with more information about the page than an ID or oddly named parameter would.

Example:


http://funmaza.cu.cc/wapmaster/tools/meta_tag_analysis

The highlighted words above could inform a user or search engine what the target page is about before following the link.

Tip to Create Good URL Structure

*.Use words in URLs- URLs with words that are relevant to your site's content and structure are friendlier for visitors navigating your site. Visitors remember them better and might be more willing to link to them.


Avoid:


*.choosing generic page names like "page1.html"


*.using excessive keywords.


*.Create a simple directory structure- Use a directory structure that organizes your content well and is easy for visitors to know where they're at on your site. Try using your directory structure to indicate the type of content found at that URL.
Avoid:


*.having deep nesting of subdirectories like ".../dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/dir5/dir6/page.html"


*.using directory names that have no relation to the content in them