SEO Tip: Search Engine Friendly URIs
A large amount of content or database driven sites neglect to optimize their URIs for search engines. Even well known sites that have been around for years. Adding a few keywords to the URI/URL is common SEO knowledge. However, lots of developers only do this in blogs and fail to do it in other applications.
Referencing the a server side resource by adding it’s id to the URI(e.g. ?user_id=4347) is a safe and simple method. The only problem is that you don’t get the full benefit of search engines. The search engine will look at your URI and just see it as a bunch of gibberish. A number(id=873) means absolutely nothing the crawler and will be ignored.
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This is what I do for my content based sites:
Instead of a URI like this(Dirty URI)
I would put some SE readable keywords in there(Nice URI):
www.yoursite.com/people/clintonskakun
Overall it’s just better looking and it gives the search engine a reason to rank you higher!
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