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rapchan last edited by

Hi.

Currently I'm using the following url: mysite.com/this-is-the-news-title/news-1234

The news title followed by the directory and the news id.

Same goes to mysite.com/my-name/user-123

I think its better for SEO since the relevant words (news title and name) are to the left of the link.

But some people are saying that this is not good for SEO because crawlers can't "organize" the urls in directories.

So they say its better to use:

mysite.com/news/this-is-the-news-title/1234

mysite.com/user/my-name/123

Cause then the crawler know what is a news and what is a user.

What do you guys think?

Thanks.
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ak1lz last edited by

Could be the reason they say to use..

mysite.com/news/this-is-the-news-title/1234

mysite.com/user/my-name/123

generally is best practice, read up on this best url practice post by Rand.
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