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Re: Canonical URLs, truncated URLs, redirects and SEO

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James Harris schrieb am 2016-01-22 um 15:11:

> On 22/01/2016 12:01, Goran wrote:
>> On 21.1.2016. 17:39, James Harris wrote:
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> ...
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>>> http://mysite.com/article-1053/what-are-the-main-reasons-why-the-web-might-need-to-have-shorter-forms-for-certain-urls
> 
> ...
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>>>    http://mysite.com/article-1053
> 
> ...
> 
>> Why would you support two URLs of the same page? If not, your problem is
>> gone.
> 
> I've seen a lot of sites have preferred URLs but, conveniently, allow 
> them to be shortened. The full URLs are probably there for SEO and 
> possibly human purposes. The shorter versions can be handy at times.

Yup:

<http://arnowelzel.de/wp/en/a-week>

Which will redirect to

<http://arnowelzel.de/wp/en/a-week-with-the-pebble>

At least as long as there is no other article which starts with "a-week"
which may be used then.

>> From SEO perspective, prefered version is lengthy one, although I
>> would think about shortening it a bit.
> 
> I was thinking to make the long URL the canonical one.

Yes - because search engines will only use (and show) the canonical one
and the shortened version is sometimes ambiguous and may bring up
something totally different in the future - as in my example, where
"a-week" may now mean "a-week-with-the-pebble" but maybe in a few months
there will be "a-week-in-australia" or whatever was well.



-- 
Arno Welzel
http://arnowelzel.de
http://de-rec-fahrrad.de
http://fahrradzukunft.de

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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
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                Re: Canonical URLs, truncated URLs, redirects and SEO James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-24 21:35 +0000
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