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Re: Canonical URLs, truncated URLs, redirects and SEO

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James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> writes:
<snip>
> That is very much the kind of thing I want to do. But I would include
> a unique code, probably a decimal number. For example, the file itself
> could be
>
>   /partition/essay/1053-long-file-name.ext
>
>   "partition" is for a partition of the site.
>   "essay" is a sample subfolder name, in this case for essays.
>   "1053-" is the unique code indicating which essay was to be served.
>   The rest of the name is mainly for human convenience.
>
> Naturally, each such essay would begin with a unique number and a hyphen.
>
> The question is what two URL forms to use in order to get to that
> file. The short URL would basically just need to know the partition,
> the subfolder, and the 1053 code. The canonical URL would also include
> the human-useful text. Canonical URL options for the above file are
> things like
>
>   http://my-site.com/partition/essay-1053/long-file-name
>   http://my-site.com/partition/essay/1053/long-file-name
>   http://my-site.com/partition/essay/long-file-name-1053
>   http://my-site.com/partition/essay/long-file-name/1053
>
> And the short form could be one of
>
>   http://my-site.com/partition/essay-1053
>   http://my-site.com/partition/essay/1053
<snip>
> I am thinking that the only true key would be the decimal number. Even
> for the URL with the long file name I don't see a need to use anything
> other than the number to find the file.

Which suggests the short form could be

  http://my-site.com/essay-1053

or even

  http://my-site.com/1053

Not that there's any harm in providing a medium length form as well
since the "partition" and "essay" bits do convey some information to the
reader.

-- 
Ben.

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