RE: [WSG] URL naming best practice guide? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
That's an awesome help. Thanks everyone! http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/11/googles-seo-starter-guide.html http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990321.html http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI *** WARNING: The information contained in this email may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any use or copying of any part of this information is unauthorised. If you have received this email in error, we apologise for any inconvenience and request that you notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this email, together with any attachments. *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
Re: [WSG] URL naming best practice guide? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Chris Vickery skrev: That's an awesome help. Thanks everyone! http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/11/googles-seo-starter-guide.html http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990321.html http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI Morec thoughts: http://shiflett.org/blog/2007/jan/url-vanity http://shiflett.org/blog/2008/mar/urls-can-be-beautiful Lars Gunther *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
RE: [WSG] URL naming best practice guide? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Possibly http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990321.html On Fri, February 20, 2009 3:25 am, Chris Vickery wrote: Thanks. Not really what I'm looking for. I know the principals myself... I'm looking for a site, a guide... something more substantive or with some authority. If it's in relatively plain English, even better. It's for my manager. -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Chris F.A. Johnson Sent: Friday, 20 February 2009 1:29 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] URL naming best practice guide? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Chris Vickery wrote: Does anyone know where I could find a best practice guide to naming URLs? We're trying to keep our URLs descriptive like... www.whatever.com/news/events/index.html but not like this... www.whatever.com/news articles/Events Sent from m...@me.com/my.file I need it to pass on to a manager. Use POSIX portable file names. That is, filenames that contain only letters, numbers, hyphens, periods and underscores and which do not begin with a hyphen. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster http://woodbine-gerrard.com = Do not reply to the From: address; use Reply-To: Author: Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *** *** WARNING: The information contained in this email may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any use or copying of any part of this information is unauthorised. If you have received this email in error, we apologise for any inconvenience and request that you notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this email, together with any attachments. *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
Re: [WSG] URL naming best practice guide? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:26:33 +1100, Chris Vickery wrote: Does anyone know where I could find a best practice guide to naming URLs? We're trying to keep our URLs descriptive like... www.whatever.com/news/events/index.html ...but not like this... www.whatever.com/news articles/Events Sent from m...@me.com/my.file I need it to pass on to a manager. Google's SEO Starter Guide has a section on URLs that you may find useful: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/11/googles-seo-starter-guide.html (Download the PDF from there.) Cordially, David -- *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
Re: [WSG] URL naming best practice guide? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Chris Vickery wrote: Does anyone know where I could find a best practice guide to naming URLs? We're trying to keep our URLs descriptive like... www.whatever.com/news/events/index.html but not like this... www.whatever.com/news articles/Events Sent from m...@me.com/my.file Use POSIX portable file names. That is, filenames that contain only letters, numbers, hyphens, periods and underscores and which do not begin with a hyphen. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster http://woodbine-gerrard.com = Do not reply to the From: address; use Reply-To: Author: Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
RE: [WSG] URL naming best practice guide? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Thanks. Not really what I'm looking for. I know the principals myself... I'm looking for a site, a guide... something more substantive or with some authority. If it's in relatively plain English, even better. It's for my manager. -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Chris F.A. Johnson Sent: Friday, 20 February 2009 1:29 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] URL naming best practice guide? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Chris Vickery wrote: Does anyone know where I could find a best practice guide to naming URLs? We're trying to keep our URLs descriptive like... www.whatever.com/news/events/index.html but not like this... www.whatever.com/news articles/Events Sent from m...@me.com/my.file I need it to pass on to a manager. Use POSIX portable file names. That is, filenames that contain only letters, numbers, hyphens, periods and underscores and which do not begin with a hyphen. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster http://woodbine-gerrard.com = Do not reply to the From: address; use Reply-To: Author: Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *** *** WARNING: The information contained in this email may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any use or copying of any part of this information is unauthorised. If you have received this email in error, we apologise for any inconvenience and request that you notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this email, together with any attachments. *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
Re: [WSG] URL naming best practice guide? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Hi Chris, The following link may be of interest to you: http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI HTH cal. On 20/02/2009, at 2:25 PM, Chris Vickery wrote: Thanks. Not really what I'm looking for. I know the principals myself... I'm looking for a site, a guide... something more substantive or with some authority. If it's in relatively plain English, even better. It's for my manager. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***