Ground Rules for SEO Friendly URLs

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How to make your URLs SEO friendly

Our topic is aimed for SEO purpose, so this whole thing will be about how to please Google. One of the considerations that Google may assess is the URL structure, the neater and clearer your URL is the better Google will love you. I know that being loved by Google may not be enough for you as each SEO engineer competes to get a better rank, not love. However, SEO is a long process that relies on many factors, so you cannot depend only on good URL structure, but hopefully by reviewing this factor you get closer to a better rank, and here are some of the ways to create a better URL structure.

Here are several main rules that can be used in every kind of websites to optimize your SEO service:

  • The first thing is to make sure that your URLs should be focused. Therefore, you need to remove your URL used some grammatical words like, ‘a’, ‘of’, ‘the’ etc. as in most cases these words add nothing to value your URL. Moreover, strip your URLs of verbs like ‘are or ‘have’ can be also a good idea since you need to make clear and simple what the page is about.
  • Related to the first point, which is aimed to be more focused. We suggest to keep your URLs as short as possible as it will be seen more focused rather than the lengthy URLs. Besides, you need to bear in mind using a logical structure in your URL.
  • Google will display information that they think is important for visitor. Remember that meta titles and descriptions are cut off at 512 pixels, and so is your URL.
  • Prefer to use dash is better rather than underscores as it connect the words and make them into one.

Hope the above tips can help to guide you create a better URL structure. We will discuss more detail about how to make good URLs for each website type in the next article, keep reading our posts.