RE: [WSG] URL naming best practice guide? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-02-20 Thread Stuart Foulstone
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.


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 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.

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Re: [WSG] URL naming best practice guide? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-02-20 Thread David Hucklesby
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
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