Google and URLs: very confusing

Thursday, November 13th, 2008 | SEO

Yesterday google released their SEO Starter Guide. Quite cool and useful information for webmasters. Google says on the URL part of this document that it’s a good habit to rewrite your URLs so that they can crawl it more easy. Besides that it has many advantages for users and CTR in search results pages.

Well, I totally agree with that!

But what surprises me about this guide? Right, as you may know Google said something totally different a few weeks ago. So, Google, what should we do? Why did you publish this post about not rewriting the URLs?

Anyway, whatever Google may say about this: I think it will always be better to rewrite your URLs. As well as for users as for search engines. And Google, please don’t be so confusing in the future, because you aren’t helping webmasters this way.

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1 Comment to Google and URLs: very confusing

martijn
November 21, 2008 at 11:49

actually, they tell you right here in the help center to use readable URLs and try to avoid parameters:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=92319

bit confusing.

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Arjan Snaterse Hi, I'm Arjan Snaterse and in my daily life I'm working as SEO and Frontend manager at Jaludo. There I'm working on casual gaming sites like Funny games and Titter girl games.

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