Comments on: 3 Common URL Problems and How to Fix Them

By: Fábián Gábor

Fábián Gábor — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:16:49 +0000

I was thinking a lot about removing index.php from the url and 301 redirect all the pages to have shorter links, but i’m not sure if it’s a good ideea, because my pages have relative good rankings. Can you tell me please what’s your opinion about it?

By: konccepts

konccepts — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:57:26 +0000

Really nice and helpful topic .Now i want to know a thing .But I have been unable to find the answer .In WordPress I am using Category based URL structure .When I use tag based URL structure ,They become optimized earlier .Suppose I use nine tags for an article in a page . the page is optimized with different Tags and they are staying in different positions : So many tags and so many same pages .Will it be penalized by Google for page duplicating ?

By: Karmran

Karmran — Fri, 21 May 2010 07:10:06 +0000

Hi,
My site url is http://www.bigomahatickets.com/ and almost 6 keywords are on first page of Google, Suddenly all keywords disappear with in four hour time, even if i write page name “Big omaha Tickets ” its shows the old url that is http://www.bigomahatickets.com/ResultsEvent.php?event=Three
or any other also when i search on google http://www.bigomahatickets.com its shows old title tags.
What is the issue i want quick reply thanks

By: Dan Patterson

Dan Patterson — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:01:42 +0000

Hi Rhys,

I’d leave your homepage as just http://www.ludlowmedia.com because that’s what people will use whenever they link to that page. Yes, you could set up the 301 redirects, but you lose a small amount of link value when you do that. So be leaving the homepage in a standard format you capture all of that link value, and it will make more sense to your users. Some people will be confused when they go to your homepage and it has a longer URL.

I hope that helps!

By: Rhys

Rhys — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 18:18:04 +0000

Thanks for the post. I do have this problem – I’ll correct it soon.

If we can hide/redirect index.php, then can it be named something else for better seo? It would seem to benefit seo if the home page url could actually contain a keyword.
Someone searching for “video duplication” might find me easier if the url was http://www.ludlowmedia.com/video-duplication than http://www.ludlowmedia.com
Of course I can create a subpage but the majority of my organic links (thus page rank)go to my homepage.

How is this addressed?

By: Muzika

Muzika — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:18:20 +0000

Great advice on the technical side of things. Any advice for explaining this quickly to clients?

By: Pyxle SEO Sri Lanka

Pyxle SEO Sri Lanka — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:17:35 +0000

Good post, Thanks. I inserted keywords to the url and had great results. It helps a lot in ranking high.

By: Sudip Deb

Sudip Deb — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:40:35 +0000

Thanks for those information ….it will help me for optimized our site.

By: Janiye

Janiye — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:18:31 +0000

This information may be useful to others.
I recently created a post with headline “Free Keyword Research Tool: Seo book”.
Unfortunately, I used a dash (–) in place of the colon that I have used above.
When I tried bookmarking the Url, I found the page could not be found. Finally, I corrected the error by replacing the dash (–) with a colon (:) as shown above.
The end result is the corrected and working url below
http://www.howtoblogformoney.net/keyword-research/free-keyword-research-tool-seo-book

By: karmadir

karmadir — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:34:28 +0000

How can we capture the data on server side? Please guide.