SEO is a very important part of any business related to internet, or what we call is Online Business. With SEO, there are many advantages that can take the business or the company holding the business to such a high level of immortal success. SEO-elaborately also known as Search Engine Optimization, is the best way to get the online recognition amongst millions of other websites & online business, as well as a very great chance to become very known online as well.
The URLs are the most important concept to be taken care of, while thinking about different SEO tools to take the page ranking of the targeted website higher on the search engines. It is not difficult to understand this concept, but the only way to understand it completely is to get through it in different installment parts.
This part of the “Understanding of SEO Friendly URLs” gives an initial, prime & brief explanation about the importance of the URLs to be SEO Friendly.
1) First and foremost, it is very important to understand what type of URLs should be used in what type of websites. Like, for example, if your website is related to the sale of apparels, you cannot design a URL that sounds as if your website deals with motorbikes!1 The URL of the website reprensents your business, and so it has got to be suitable such that the person gets a complete primary guidance while looking for links that he wants to look for. In short, the URL is got to be according to the business website you hold.
2) Other, do not keep very long URLs. Long URLs will not only take longer time to load your website, but will also disinterest the visitors. Try to keep the URL as per the websites or the pages of website, and as compact as possible.
3) Remove unnecessary punctuation marks from the URLs. Once this is done, the URL reprensents better scene of your website & business. ( Eg: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=web+server+software).
4) Removing unnecessary punctuation marks does not only serve the purpose mentioned above, but also minimizes the security risk from the hackers, who make an attempt to perform a front door attack into a web application. The developers of the website, that have put in lot of efforts in the website development, can loose all the secrets of the dynamic website development to the hackers, if the file extentions like .asp, .jsp, .pl.. used in the complex URLs.
5)Do not use the ( _ ) ways of designing the URLs. Insteadly, use ( - ), as the underscores ( _ ) are not user-friendly in the usage of the website. It is highly recommended to keep the Hyphens ( - ) insteadly.
These ways are just few of the ones that are very important to understand how SEO Friendly URLs should be designed. Keep watching out for the next posts to learn more about the "IMPORTANCE OF SEO FRIENDLY URLs".
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