Optimize URL

[JohnHuynh]

Hello,

My website have been running over five years. I have just reviewed and seen some URLs had not good. It is http://www.vietnamvisacorp.com/faqs/who-need-visa-to-vietnam---1.html, containing characters "---1". Should I remove unnecessary characters "---"?. Thanks for any advice!

[JohnHuynh]

Hello, I have a another problem here, I used http://www.vietnamvisacorp.com/faqs.html instead of http://www.vietnamvisacorp.com/faqs. Hence, http://www.vietnamvisacorp.com/faqs will be caused 404 page.

My question is should I change from faqs.html to faqs (no .html)?

Thanks in advance any advice?

[JohnHuynh]

Thank you Tom, It is very absolutely clear

[TomRayner]

I'd want to optimise the URL to remove those three extra dashes after vietnam as well.

But yes, I would optimise from a user experience point of view - if you see a URL with "-1" at the end of it, you may expect it to be part of a sequence, i.e. "-2", "-3", "-4".  This could lead to some 404 errors that would disrupt the user journey of the website.

I'd definitely want to remove those extra dashes as well, as the URL looks untidy from a user point of view.

Hope this helps.