Long URL
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I am using seomoz software as a trial, it has crawled my site and a report is telling me that the URL for my forum is to long:
<dl>
<dt>Title</dt>
<dd>Healthy Living Community</dd>
<dt>Meta Description</dt>
<dd>Healthy life discussion forum chatting about all aspects of healthy living including nutrition, fitness, motivation and much more.</dd>
<dt>Meta Robots</dt>
<dd>noodp, noydir</dd>
<dt>Meta Refresh</dt>
<dd>Not present/empty</dd>
<dd>
1 Warning
Found about 17 hours ago
<dl>
<dt>Number of characters</dt>
<dd>135 (over by 21)</dd>
<dt>Description</dt>
<dd>A good URL is descriptive and concise. Although not a high priority, we recommend a URL that is shorter than 75 characters.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>
<dd>
The problem is when I check the page via edit or in the admin section of wordpress, the url is a s follows:
http://www.goodhealthword.com/forum/
My question is where is I cannot see where this long url is located, it appears to be a valid page but I cant find it.
Thanks
Pete
</dd>
</dl>
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I wouldn't concern myself with this error - many of the large media outlets have long URL's and no issue with traffic. I certainly wouldn't change URL's unless I know I am not getting the expected rankings and traffic to the page. If this is your one error on their report - you are in great shape. kudos.
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