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I messed up my url file names, do them over?

by bleu
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So in making my site I dumbly made my file names something like this chris.html for my Christmas page and so on.

Some of them got pretty weird, they even look just like random letters or nonsense bocreco.html

Don't ask me why. I don't know what I was thinking at the time but Google says:

Sub-pages should be easy to read. For
example, use www.stasiasbakery.com/custom-cakes
instead of www.stasiasbakery.com/prodid?12345.

Anyway, the site will be three years old soon, should I change my urls now or is it not really that important?
#file #messed #names #url
  • Profile picture of the author WareTime
    It's not worth the time and effort of the rename and necessary 301 that you then have to leave in place FOREVER if someone linked to one of the urls you don't like.

    Make future ones with more thought. More thought for you, not because I believe urls matter a bit, I don't, but just make them so you like them.

    In 1995 search engines had trouble with url's such as your example, but not for about 10 years now.

    URLS - shorter is better. Know why? Leaves you more room for the rest of your tweet. People don't trust shorteners because they know the spammers, hackers and so on use them. In addition many url shorteners have gone out of business leaving you with a dead link.

    Wordpress I'd use default or example.com/postid Static sites get example.com/unixtimestamp

    These days heavily keyworded urls are a spam signal, not a benefit.

    Here's a couple articles to help

    http://www.highrankings.com/faq-query-strings

    http://www.highrankings.com/faq-no-content
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