Comments on: Friendly web addresses

By: Niels

Niels — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:01:13 +0000

Clear web addresses are underestimated, your articles clearly point to the advantages. In most blogging platforms such tools already exist, with Joomla I use a plugin that changes all the url's into friendly urls, my guess is that such plugins exist for most platforms.

By: John B

John B — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:51:40 +0000

Paul, I sent you the problem URLs. I also did a quick search on delicious for others who have bookmarked boagworld and found that a majority of the old links do in fact work, which indicate redirects were set up. Shame on me for doubting your skillz.

By: Paul Boag

Paul Boag — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:06:42 +0000

that shouldn't be the case John. Can you email me the problem URLs.

By: John B

John B — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:45:09 +0000

I very much agree with all your points here. Taking the time to think the URL structure is definitely worth it. But, Paul, all of my previous bookmarks to your site are broken. I went into my delicious to pull up an article to send someone and discovered I was disturbing the force. While you're new URL structure is very friendly, my broken bookmarks are not. Boo!

By: Alan Pritt

Alan Pritt — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:45:00 +0000

Chris Shiflett has an interesting take on this; using verbs instead of nouns for the categories. On OmniTI, they have links such as http://omniti.com/is/hiring He points out this is more for fun than practical benefit, but it certainly has the 'memorability' part down. http://shiflett.org/blog/2008/mar/urls-can-be-beautiful

By: Martijn v/d Ven

Martijn v/d Ven — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:43:56 +0000

@Simon D. TinyURL will offer a preview for you if you want. Pointing your browser to http://preview.tinyurl.com/ followed by the link ID (the part that normally follows tinyurl.com/) will bring you to a page by tinyurl showing the URL were you would've gone. If you than don't trust that link simply google it. A bit extra work, but it'll help. I bet there is some Greasemonkey script or Firefox add-on that will rewrite the links for you. @Paul Thanks for the tip on Shorty, was wondering what you used to do this. High probability that I'll be running it soon too.

By: Bennett Seo

Bennett Seo — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:06:15 +0000

Why do they spam there is no point there is nofollow on all of the links.

By: Simon Douglas

Simon Douglas — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:56:56 +0000

Comment spam already – you must be so excited!
Really nice site refresh and good to have you back.
Is there not still a trust issue with services like TinyURL – that people have no idea where they’ll end up? At least with Shorty, by having as associated with your domain, people will should have some sense that it’s legit.
Simon

By: Bennett Seo

Bennett Seo — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:51:38 +0000

http://www.boagworld.com/category/name.html Is not only easy to remember, but makes for really good SEO, Adding .html on the end has had mixed results with some people saying it makes google think its static but others saying its not a keyword remove it. Its up to you really i would remove it. Simon Bennett - seo

By: Mountain Bike Rider

Mountain Bike Rider — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:39:27 +0000

Welcome back Paul!
I’ve been forced to listen to far inferior podcasts in the past month or so.
Also, well done on the highland fling compering, I was there and it livened it up a fair bit. I think it even encouraged a bit more questioning from the audience which is always a good thing.
Colin