Re: Canonical URLs, truncated URLs, redirects and SEO

From	Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.php
Subject	Re: Canonical URLs, truncated URLs, redirects and SEO
Date	2016-01-21 19:16 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<87d1suzqsz.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink)
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James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there a good place to ask about the following? I thought I had
> previously seen some Usenet groups specifically about web development
> but for some reason cannot find any just now.
>
> My query is about having a "normal" URL which could be lengthy, and
> allowing there to be a truncated form. For example, a full/long URL
> could be of the form
>
>
> http://mysite.com/article-1053/what-are-the-main-reasons-why-the-web-might-need-to-have-shorter-forms-for-certain-urls
>
> The shorter, truncated one would be
>
>   http://mysite.com/article-1053
>
> I wanted to ask for some advice on different ways of shortening the
> URL (as the URL form, above, is just one option), about which form
> would be best as canonical, and a related matter about 301
> (i.e. permanent) redirects to remove the usual "www." prefix.
>
> Any one here aware of a Usenet group that would be good for such
> queries?

The best fit is probably comp.infosystems.www.misc though there is not
much traffic.

-- 
Ben.

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Canonical URLs, truncated URLs, redirects and SEO James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-21 16:39 +0000
  Re: Canonical URLs, truncated URLs, redirects and SEO crankypuss <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-01-21 11:22 -0700
    Re: Canonical URLs, truncated URLs, redirects and SEO James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 13:58 +0000
  Re: Canonical URLs, truncated URLs, redirects and SEO Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-01-21 19:16 +0000
    Re: Canonical URLs, truncated URLs, redirects and SEO James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 14:03 +0000
  Re: Canonical URLs, truncated URLs, redirects and SEO Richard Yates <richard@yatesguitar.com> - 2016-01-21 12:31 -0800
    Re: Canonical URLs, truncated URLs, redirects and SEO Allodoxaphobia <knock_yourself_out@example.net> - 2016-01-21 22:42 +0000
  Re: Canonical URLs, truncated URLs, redirects and SEO Goran <goran@nospam.com> - 2016-01-22 13:01 +0100
    Re: Canonical URLs, truncated URLs, redirects and SEO James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 14:11 +0000
      Re: Canonical URLs, truncated URLs, redirects and SEO Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-01-22 17:03 +0100
        Re: Canonical URLs, truncated URLs, redirects and SEO James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-23 11:59 +0000
          Re: Canonical URLs, truncated URLs, redirects and SEO Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-01-23 13:09 +0000
            Re: Canonical URLs, truncated URLs, redirects and SEO James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-23 16:17 +0000
              Re: Canonical URLs, truncated URLs, redirects and SEO "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-01-23 20:11 +0100
                Re: Canonical URLs, truncated URLs, redirects and SEO James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-24 21:35 +0000
  Re: Canonical URLs, truncated URLs, redirects and SEO Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2016-01-25 22:20 +0000

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